Jennette’s Pier will be a family-oriented educational and recreational fishing pier.  It will feature a 1,000 foot long fishing pier, a 16,000 square foot pier house and a public bath house.  The pier house will have a tackle shop, an educational classroom and large multi-purpose room on the 2nd floor.  The upper floor will accommodate large meetings, school groups, conferences, dinners and receptions.

Three wind turbines located on the pier will help power the facility.  Solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling and gray water re-use plumbing systems are among the sustainable green building components featured at the facility.

Jennette’s Pier will educate visitors about the oceans, and it will inspire appreciation and conservation of North Carolina’s aquatic environments.  The pier will also be a state of the art recreational fishing facility.

The pier and pier house are designed to be LEED certified a the level of Gold.  The LEED certification process is a national ranking system developed by the U. S. Green Building Council for qualifying the level of sustainability and green building methods.

The project is expected to be completed in the Spring of 2011.

The first few weeks at the pier construction site have involved the staging of equipment and materials.  A large crane was used to position wooden beams, steel and other support materials on site.  Construction meetings and pier advisory meetings have been a constant, preparing for the construction to begin moving eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

The photos presented represent last weeks activities on site.