Bensonwood in the News

Tedd Benson, Maverick Builder, to Address Grads at Unity: America's Environmental College

Tedd Benson to deliver May 10 commencement speech at Unity College, Unity, ME

THIS OLD HOUSE® BUILDS NEW PREFAB TIMBERFRAME HOME IN WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS

The Emmy Award-winning television show This Old House partners with custom homebuilding company, Bensonwood, to build a new, highly sustainable timberframe home that will reflect old New England barns built centuries ago.

Unity House: A Prototype for 21st Century Homebuilding

The OPEN Prototype Initiative Unveils Unity House – A Mass-Producible, Customizable, Sustainable, and Adaptable Green Home

OPEN_2 featured in Press Herald

The Portland Press Herald wrote a feature about the upcoming OPEN_2 project at Unity College. Read it here.

Bensonwood First to Launch Home Gallery With "Room With a View" Floorplans

Bensonwood has upgraded the usability of its Gallery of Homes with a remarkable new feature: users can click on red arrows contained in the floor plan to reveal a photo of that room or area of the home, looking in the direction of that arrow. "At Bensonwood, we don't believe in plan books," said Randall Walter, an architect at Bensonwood. "But, we want potential clients to get a feel for the floor plans we've done in the past. This new feature is possible because our Open-Built® system houses all of our plans and their countless details," Walter said. "That makes it easy for us to link our photos to the selected perspective in the plans."

Bensonwood Project on Taunton Press Forums

A Bensonwood home going up in Maine is being discussed on the Fine Homebuilding Forums. If you want to see the photos (and read the reactions) you'll need to create an account. Take a look.

Habitat for Humanity Blitz Build

Monadnock Habitat for Humanity recently completed an extraordinary project in Alstead, New Hampshire. Led by Tedd Benson, the team built a 2,100 sq. ft. home for Rick and Caroline Oberst and their eight children, in just eight days! Over 50 businesses and 450 individuals volunteered products, supplies, and their time for this project. The "Blitz Build" took place August 18th - 25th, 2007. Bensonwood employees donated time and expertise, and provided the use of the Bensonwood facilities for pre-building many components of the house.

One of the key factors in achieving this short build time was the use of Bensonwood's innovative Open-Built® systems. With the majority of the site crew being volunteers with little or no construction experience, it was essential to make the build as uncomplicated as possible. Take a look at our Open-Built® pages for more information about this efficient and highly customizable approach to home building.

For pictures and stories about the Habitat for Humanity project, visit Monadnock Habitat for Humanity Alstead Blitz Build, or the Keene Sentinel Alstead Blitz Build pages.

Architectural Digest

The September 2007 issue of Architectural Digest features some excellent photos of the timberframe home designed by Bernard Wharton (for himself) and built by Bensonwood. It is noted in the article that reclaimed Douglas fir timbers were used throughout the home. See pages 248 - 250 for the photos.

Older News

Loblolly House

Designed by KieranTimberlake Associates, this unusual and amazing home was fabricated and built by Bensonwood.

OPEN Prototype

Other News

The New ABCs for HVAC, a HousingZone.com article on the ease of installing HVAC in an Open-Built® home.

NH MEP article on LEAN manufacturing strategies at Bensonwood.

Manufacturing Success Stories pubished an article about our LEAN strategies in their online newsletter.

PATH Celebrates Innovation, Unveils Plans for Home of the Future Bensonwood receives recognition for its "commitment to researching, developing, and marketing improved housing."

PATH Concept Home Committee Visited Bensonwood Facility

Inga Saffron. "Changing Skyline -- Green, clean, and pretty prefab." The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 15, 2007. Bensonwood fabricated and assembled this home.

Hilary Harris, our LEED-certified architect, was featured on New Hampshire Public Radio for her bike commute.

Joseph Truini. "A House with no Nails." Popular Mechanics. April 2007. 70-75.

Bensonwood Homes Underwrites This Old House on WGBH. Innovative builder expands on long relationship with program. See the video

Tim O'Sullivan. "Open Houses." Smart HomeOwner. January/February 2007. 50-53.

Andrew Dey. "Reinventing the House." Fine Homebuilding. November 2006. 58-63. (6.5 MB PDF)

Lisa Marquis Jackson. "The Art of the Craft." Timber Home Living. October 2006, 26-27. (381k PDF)

Tedd Benson. "A Dismal Standard." Fine Homebuilding. Summer 2006. 8-16.

Paul Fournier. "A Home for Russian Icons." New England Construction. January 23, 2006. 4-6. (1 MB PDF)

Amy Laughinghouse. "Finally Home." Timber Home Living. February 2006. 66-74. (5.3 MB PDF)

Joe Bousquin. "Hampton's Harvest." Timber Home Living. April 2006. 32-40. (3.7 MB PDF)

Dana Lambert. "Colonial Revived." (link to secure PDF. This file requires an additional plug-in to load.) New England Home.  September/October 2005. 115-121.

"On Golden Lake." (link to 1 mb PDF) Luxury Log Homes & Timber Frame.  Spring 2006. 56-63.
Correction on page 7.
Builder: Dennis Moran, Moran Construction Management, Center Harbor, NH.