BensonWood.com is a company focused on building energy-efficient homes
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Welcome to Bensonwood
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Company Overview
Wood is at the heart of Bensonwood's collective inspiration and is the wellspring for our productive energies—all of which are poured into the design and construction of some of the finest homes and public structures presently being built, anywhere. We share with our clients the recognition of two important truths: that trees are a precious resource that need to be used with intelligence and great care, and that the process of working in wood to create a timberframe home can be an uplifting and satisfying one for the homeowner, designer, framer, and manager.
Our work toward this mission began in 1974 with Tedd Benson's early efforts to revive the craft of timberframing. Tedd found in the historic buildings of New England a legacy of durable, honestly crafted buildings, the heart of which were framed in heavy timbers joined by traditional mortise and tenon joinery. Many of these structures had stood for 200 or more years, and were still strong as long as their roofs had been maintained. He also found that the knowledge of this form of construction was virtually forgotten by modern practitioners of wood framing, who, in the pursuit of ever faster and cheaper ways of assembling the structure of buildings, had lost this valuable craft.
Tedd began by studying old barns and houses in New England, and then built his first few frames using the historical joinery he had observed in those buildings. His work attracted dedicated woodworkers to the hill country of southwestern New Hampshire. Together they rediscovered long-forgotten hand framing techniques and met the challenge to meld centuries-old craft with the needs of contemporary buildings—insulation, plumbing, wiring, communications. In the late 1970s, for example, a structural wall panel system was developed to completely enclose the timberframe, bringing superior insulation and allowing the timbers to be fully displayed in beautifully dynamic interiors. The goal was to create authentic, durable, yet modern frames; thus they pursued a process that enriched the workers and created a product that thrilled clients.
Contact
- Benson Woodworking Company, Inc.
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- Walpole New Hampshire
- United States 03608
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- 6037563600
