Melton Designers Give Back
This year the Design side of Melton Design Build decided to give back to the community by volunteering for a Habitat for Humanity build day. What better way to give back than to donate a full day to help provide housing to families in our community who need it most? And what better way for a group of designers to tap into the Build side of Melton Design Build?
The Project
We started our day at the new Boulder-MOD warehouse located right off Arapahoe Ave in East Boulder. Each story houses a combination of two and three-bedroom duplexes on their own trailers, nearly ready to be delivered to their future site. Gone are the days of a single jobsite susceptible to the delays of weather and lack of onsite material storage – welcome to the MODular era! Here, we picked up where other volunteers left off and broke out into small groups doing tasks like hanging drywall, packing insulation, and laying down floor sheathing. Under the watchful eye of our gracious Habitat for Humanity hosts, we all walked away with a strong appreciation for what it takes to actually build a house. It’s one thing to put together a set of drawings and discuss complicated details with your own project team, but it’s another to get your hands dirty and perform the work that’s required.
There’s still a few more steps that need to be completed before the duplexes are ready to go, but after the last group of volunteers and builders finish up what they need to, these homes will make the short trip up to the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in North Boulder where their new inhabitants await.
Thanks to Flatirons Habitat for Humanity for having us!
If you’re interested in volunteering, you can check out the available time slots here: https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/volunteer/#/join-party?k=eb7mkj8i1fjb7w
For more information on the project, check out: https://www.flatironshabitat.org/ponderosa
