Announcing ‘High Performance Homes’ - The Magazine
A1DesignBuild is a designer and builder of homes in Bellingham and Whatcom County, Washington. We specialize in everything from home remodels to complete high-performance home builds, and our over 70 years of providing excellent service to the community assures that your home project gets done right - each and every time.
The Magazine about High Performance Homes
You may be asking yourself: why start a magazine? Especially in this digital age?
It’s a good question, but one we can answer pretty simply.
We still like to feel things.
From the high performance homes we build, to the remodels we do, to the designs we create, we still like to hold things in our hands. Nothing satisfies quite like that.
And a magazine is a great way to gather some of the many insights we’ve learned by building high performance homes here in Bellingham and Whatcom County for clients big and small.
Another inspiration for starting this magazine was to have a vehicle that could educate the community about the many ins and outs of exactly what it takes to do a build project, from design all the way through to the last of bit of clean-up on a job. It’s a way for us to distribute resources and ideas, so people like you can go out and be informed. It’s also a place where you might find a little inspiration, or even a good place to hike in Whatcom County.
One of the things we've learned over the years though is that we’re not very effective on our own. We want to actively engage the community, either through one of our nonprofit projects or by simply being a good neighbor. There are some challenges facing us, and if we put our heads together, maybe we can find some solutions that work. There might be some ideas on this magazine that help with that.
Like building a good high performance home, we’re on a mission to build a community that is better than the sum of its parts. We can take the same principals of building a high performance home and carry that forward into everything we do: intentional design around good people, a collaboration of ideas, of finding the right framework and vision for what we stand for. It’s been a work in progress, and though we don’t know exactly what the future holds, we do know that our model of a worker owned cooperative is the way to go.
So thanks for stopping by to read this. And if you want, download a copy of the magazine here, or reach out to me and we’ll send you a hard copy at no cost. The choice is yours.
We hope you enjoy the very first issue of High Performance Homes, and we look forward to your thoughts.
Until then, keep making the good stuff and doing the good work. Together, we really can make a difference.
Enjoy.
Patrick Martin
General Manager
A1DesignBuild
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