THE YEAR 2126
The World of Hammerdahl™
Hammerdahl™ is a small town in the year 2126. People fix their own things, neighbors help each other, and the beavers have been working the river longer than anybody.
Why Nebraska?
I chose Nebraska because a building there has to live through almost everything the United States and Canada can throw at it.
It has hit 118 degrees above zero and 47 below. Wind chills drop past 60 below. Tornadoes tear across the ground, and the summers get heavy with humidity.
On a climate-zone map, Nebraska looks simple. In real life, a building there faces weather from nearly every climate zone we have.
But Nebraska could be anywhere. Hammerdahl™ happens to be in Nebraska. It could be in your backyard. Wherever you live, the lesson is the same: build for the worst weather your own place can throw at you, not the average day.
THE JOURNAL
Neil and Deborah Hammer
Neil Hammer is a craftsman in Hammerdahl™. He and his wife, Deborah, are raising four children and a black Springer Spaniel named Baxter in the house his great-great-grandfather, Ivar Iverson, built by hand a hundred years ago.
Ivar left behind fifty notebooks and sixty boxes. Some pages drop you right into Hammerdahl™. Others are Ivar talking straight to you, across a hundred years.
THE AUTHOR · BRIAN IVERSON
Bapa.
Brian has spent 52 years around houses. He has designed more than 750 structures and walked about 25,000 builds, most of them affordable homes for regular families.
Hammerdahl™ is the picture he has carried since 1979: houses that take care of the family, 100 years out.
Hammerdahl™ is a made-up town, but most of the people in it are real. Brian just changed their names. That’s him with Beev and Pepi.
WHAT IF
The future is closer than you think.
What if your house made more energy than it used?
What if nothing was ever thrown away?
What if your neighbors fixed things together?
A 52-chapter novel, one chapter for every week of the year, grows out of the same journal. Hammerdahl™ is a Beevland original series.
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