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Building Systems Councils Sponsors Habitat Home

Along with her four-year-old son, Karrington, Lydia Branch, a dental office manager, will soon be moving out of a one-bedroom apartment and into a new panelized home in Columbia, SC’s Rockgate Community that was constructed during an annual “blitz build” sponsored by the Building Systems Councils (BSC) in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity.

The BSC has been sponsoring this annual event since 1995, with council members donating materials and money to assemble the home.

This year’s coordinator of the project, Shanna Shepherd, raised nearly $20,000 by auctioning off several donated prizes at the BSC Banquet held during the International Builders’ Show.

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Sheppard also arranged for a local church group to donate money and provide volunteers to help assemble the home.

The new owner of the $50,00, 1,200 square-foot, three-bedroom home has participated in the Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity homeownership program since 2002.

Next year’s BSC Habitat for Humanity project will tentatively take place in Reading, PA.
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