Massachusetts

Massachusetts combines the harshest weather in our service area with some of its most demanding energy expectations. Nor'easters, significant snow load, a long heating season and, along the Cape and the North and South Shores, sustained coastal exposure all apply, often to the same building.

The stock is characteristically New England: brick and brownstone in Boston, triple-deckers across the older streetcar suburbs, and shingled coastal properties further out. Many sit in historic districts. Massachusetts also operates some of the most demanding residential energy requirements in the country, which puts glazing performance squarely on the critical path of a project rather than at the end of it.

How we build for it

Passive-house-capable systems meet the performance end of the brief, with triple glazing and multi-chamber thermally broken frames as standard rather than an upgrade. For historic districts, made-to-measure fabrication means matching an existing opening's proportions instead of asking the building to accept a stock unit.