Over the weekend our team came in and  set up computers, unloaded red crates and made sure that we would be fully functional this morning.  While we still have some crates left to unload (and there have been a ton of requests for Allen wrenches today as we put together additional purchases from IKEA) we are surprisingly settled in our individual work areas and community space.

Over the following weeks, the conference rooms will be fitted out and the contractors will finish their punch lists.  Already we are experiencing the benefits of some of the LEED strategies.  With daylight to more than 90% of the workstations, the space feels really great.  Not only that, but the low VOC materials made it easy to move in even as contractors were still finishing the back stairway and first floor.

The best part of the new space is that we all have our own bit of sweat equity—which makes it feel like our own.