On May 20, employees from Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) came out to the Pikes Peak Habitat construction site at The Ridge at Sand Creek for a special volunteer day. “Not only did they help us come up with some great alternatives for landscaping,” says Eric Wells, Pikes Peak Habitat’s construction superintendent, “but they want to […]
Team Depot in Action
Volunteers from The Home Depot Foundation got busy this week and built a new playground for Abrams Elementary on Fort Carson with KaBOOM!, a nonprofit that provides playgrounds to schools nationwide. Not only did they build a playground created with input from students and designed to meet handicapped-accessible standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act, […]
It Takes a Village… by Kris Lewis
It takes a village…. to create “a world where everyone has a decent place to live.” In May, it was a “village” of Pikes Peak Habitat Global Village volunteers with a trip to the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Together, the Pikes Peak Habitat volunteers, the future homeowner, and three Trinidadian construction site […]
Women Build 2017
Thanks to all the Volunteers that came out to help us kick off Women Build Week 2017 this past Saturday!
Make a Global Impact
In October 2015, I traveled to Budapest, Hungary as part of a Habitat Global Village team. My team worked on the future home of Gabor, a homeless Hungarian man. Each day of our trip, Gabor rode his bicycle to our construction site from his cardboard shanty. Upon his arrival, he donned his hard hat, picked […]
Youth Training Program
Pikes Peak Habitat is working with students from Harrison School District 2 on our construction site as part of their Career Readiness Academy. Atlas Prep Charter School is building sheds for our homeowners, too. These ventures allow at-risk students age 16 and older an opportunity to learn from our construction staff and experience hands-on job […]
Vendors Build Community
Builders Blitz 2016
Check our time-lapse video of the Home Builders Blitz sponsored by Aspen View Homes! What normally takes us months to complete, Aspen View Homes and their subcontractors completed in less than a week! Here you can see this house built in 3 minutes.
