Our Approach
Craft, Service, and Science
A company of carpenters, we construct buildings that sustain and delight by empowering employees, harnessing 21st century building science, and advancing the tradition of craftsmanship. This effort is built on five pillars:
- Craft: durable, precise work performed by Hammer & Hand’s career carpenters.
- Building science: new levels of home performance achieved through a physics- and systems-based understanding of how buildings function.
- Collaboration with clients and designers: superior homes born of thorough and effective collaboration between the three legs of the project development stool – client, designer, and builder.
- Rigorous project management: on-time and on-budget projects delivered through clear communication, open books, and project management acumen.
- Empowered employees: service to the client and the designer via service to the employee – happy employees create happy clients.
Through our focus on Passive House construction over the past several years, we have emerged as a regional and national leader in high performance green building, bringing transformational energy performance and quality-assured durability to our green projects. Even as we push the boundaries of high performance building, and even as that work transforms the way we approach “conventional” projects, we remain rooted in the craft-based remodels and new buildings that got us started 20 years ago.