West Tisbury Looks to Get Housing Project Back on Track

The West Tisbury select board and the town’s affordable housing committee are still grappling with a recent dust-up that saw a contractor withdraw from a proposed affordable housing project in the town.

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West Tisbury Looks To Repair Affordable Housing Dust-Up

The West Tisbury select board intervened this week to try and get a town-sponsored affordable housing project at 401 State Road back on track.

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Same Model, New CEO; South Mountain Looks to the Future

Although John Abrams isn’t officially retiring until 2022, plans are in the works for Deirdre Bohan to take over as South Mountain Company CEO.

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South Mountain Co. Eyes Expansion

South Mountain Company, one of the largest architecture and design-build firms on the Vineyard, is looking to expand its mixed-use campus in West Tisbury. A public hearing was held last week.

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800-Square-Foot Homes Prove How Livable Small Can Be
By Susie Middleton

Take a look at three new 800-square-foot homes in West Tisbury and Chilmark that make good use of zoning regulations to achieve efficient and attractive year-round living spaces for Island families.

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South Mountain Joins Solar Power Cooperative

South Mountain Company of West Tisbury has been accepted for membership in Amicus — a national solar buying cooperative. Amicus is an association of independently owned solar companies that have joined forces to provide their customers with better industry pricing for products and services.

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South Mountain Honored For Its Adoption Policies

The South Mountain Company in West Tisbury has tied for 10th place on a list of best adoption-friendly workplaces in America, which was released Thursday, May 1.

South Mountain ranked high on the list because of the generous benefits it provides for employees: $10,000 and up to four weeks paid leave per adoption. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption compiled and released the list.

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Sunny Certification

Sunny Certification

Phil Forest, the lead photovoltaic system designer and installer at South Mountain Company in West Tisbury, recently passed the North American board of certified energy practitioners exam and is now a NABCEP certified solar electric installer. Phil is the only NABCEP certified solar electric installer on the Vineyard, and one of less than a hundred in New England.

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Engineer’s Energy

South Mountain Company's high-performance building engineer Marc Rosenbaum gave a presentation on Innovative Mechanical Systems for Low Heating Load Buildings at the fifth annual North American Passive House conference in Portland, Ore. Passive House is a German standard that was designed to make the world's most energy efficient buildings.

His case studies included a recent South Mountain deep-energy retrofit of a century-old carriage house for the Woods Hole Research Center.

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Energy Manager Rob Meyers Attends Solar Conference

Rob Meyers, South Mountain Company’s manager of energy services, recently attended the Solar Energy Industries Association’s PV [photovoltaic] America conference in Philadelphia, the heart of the largest solar market in the U.S. In fact, Mr. Meyers said in a statement, more solar was installed from Boston to Washington D.C. last year than in the entire state of California.

Mr. Meyers was one of the 3,000 industry professionals learning about the most advanced solar technology available today.

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