President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, 2022, kicking off $9B in funding for States and Tribes tantamount to the Electric stovetops are covered under rebate programs housed in the IRA. Photo by RODNAE Productions, from pexels.com biggest investment in home-energy improvements (triggering likely homeowner benefits) and [...]
Happy anniversary to us! It has been an interesting and fulfilling first 5 years here at REspace. We have grown, our clients have increased, and our project types have steadily improved. Even more exciting is that we have recently begun to add staff! Quite the journey so far. Ryan and I, our families as well [...]
...And You Won't Believe What Happened Next! Watch that fourth year! It was a doozy. As of May 2nd REspace has been in business for four years, and this year the whole REspace family celebrated with Tacos and Baseball! After grabbing lunch at Mission Taco we headed downtown to watch the Cardinals play the Reds [...]
Microbes Weigh on Our Minds It's no wonder that homeowners and those in the market for a home are wondering if antimicrobials (essentially "germ-killers") are effective and safe. Although the number of vaccinated people continues to rise in the U.S. and globally, as of this writing, COVID-19 has killed close to 590,000 Americans and more [...]
Welcome to 2021! We made it through 2020! Shortly, we will offer you a peek into what we're working on now. In a previous post about our residential architecture projects we mentioned that the pandemic hadn't affected our operation as a virtual firm. But how we coordinate with contractors, consultants, and jurisdictions has changed somewhat. [...]
Thanks largely to a global health emergency, drama reigns in 2020. But could ongoing market drama mean a residential rebound? This situation prevails in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) fields, too, although construction has been pummeled less than, say, in-person service fields such as hospitality and travel or even education. Take, for example, projected [...]
It has been an interesting start to the new year for our young company to say the least. As changes continue to emerge from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have found that the flexibility of being a virtual firm has proven itself invaluable. Even though ours has been deemed an essential industry, our work methodology [...]
Recently I returned to our first project, a duplex to single family conversion in Tower Grove South on Grace Avenue, and got to take my camera! Hopefully you’ll enjoy the photos as much as I did taking them. Curb Appeal Photo by Ryan Suess If you don’t recall, Grace Avenue is a collaboration [...]
We're approaching 2 1/2 years! Remember, when you're two, that half was a big deal to you as well. Possibly so much so that you started saying half once you reached 1/3. Marketing . . . we're always tweaking our social media presence and we recently had a poll regarding our Facebook offerings. Our goal [...]
When REspace's own Eric Bratzler isn't architecting, he's probably guitarifying his world as a founding member of the progressive rock band Sense Datum. Eric plays guitars on their studio album, Negative Space, and the single “Ad Astra,” which are now on Spotify, iTunes, and most streaming platforms. “Ad Astra” arose from a NASA song-writing competition [...]
