Fruitvale Avenue Development
| Type: | 3 and 4 bedroom |
| Number of Families: | 4 |
| Location: | Fruitvale Avenue |
| Groundbreaking: | November 20th 2002 |
| Dedication: | October 11, 2003 |
| Land Provided By: | City of Oakland |
| Sponsors and Partners: | City of Oakland, Donation in Memory of Grace J. Eaton and john F. kohler, the Anonymous Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation, Alameda County Waste Management Authority, the Corporation of National Service, Irwin Home Equity and the Whirlpool Corporation |
| Architect: | Gray Architecture/GHA, www.ghadesign.net, Tim Gray and Geoff Holton, 510-663-9797 |
| Status: | Completed |
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Project Description:
This development consists of four two-story town homes with a similar floor plan and small private yard. The units have a living room, kitchen, and laundry downstairs, and three bedrooms with 1.5 baths (1170 ft2) or four bedrooms with 2 baths (1360 ft2).
East Bay Habitat is Going GREEN!:
This is a unique development in that the homes incorporate environmentally sustainable design and our "green" building practices. We used sustainable and recycled building materials, and passive and active solar energy features. We also recycled 90% of our unused building materials (the City of Oakland only requires 51% of construction waste to be recycled). The homes have modular framing, basing all layout on 24" centers. Using this system of framing, as opposed to the standard 16" on center framing we eliminated 30% of the framing material typically used on a project of this size. All framing lumber used was FSC certified (wood produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner). This was East Bay Habitat for Humanity's first "green" development and we have continued to build "green" ever since.
