Replacing All Souls Church Steeple
Raised July 22, 2008
The Team
Client: Delta Epsilon LLC, 21 Omega Drive. Brattleboro, VT
Builder: Bensonwood®, Walpole, NH
Designer: Chris Carbone, Bensonwood, Walpole, NH
Job Captain: Dennis Marcom, Bensonwood, Walpole, NH
Project Manager: Tom Olsen, Bensonwood, Walpole, NH
Engineer: John Wathne, Structures North, Brattleboro, VT
Mason: Glenn Rosinski, Rosinski Masonry, Brattleboro, VT
Roofer: Perry Phoenix, Phoenix Roofing Co., LLC, Townsend, VT.
Finial Manufacture: New England Copperworks, RI
Statistics
Height: 40 feet, not counting copper fininal
Frame weight: 6400 lbs
Shipping weight: 8600 lbs (includes frame and hemlock sheathing)
Total weight: 16,000 lbs, including slate roofing
Materials: Douglas Fir glulams, Center mast: locally-sourced locust, Sheathing: locally-sourced hemlock
Construction: Factory machining and assembly at Bensonwood's Walpole facility.
Timber Frame Piece Count: 65 structural members (not counting sheathing.
