This Week’s Build: 2026 Blitz Build
This Week's Build
The 2026 Home Builders Blitz Build is underway. This week, hundreds of Cape Cod builders, subcontractors, suppliers, volunteers, and community partners are building a three-bedroom home for a local family — from frame to finish — in just five days.
The build started Monday, September 21, and runs through Friday, September 25, at 805 Gifford Street Extension in Falmouth, behind the Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod ReStore. The public is welcome to stop by throughout the week to watch members of the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod (HBRACC) donate their time, expertise, materials, and resources to build the home.
We'll add updates on Facebook and Instagram all week.
Thank You to Our Volunteers & Material Donors
The 2026 Blitz Build happens because more than 70 Cape Cod companies stepped up to donate labor, materials, and expertise.
Thank you to every one of them:
The Family Moving In
By the end of the week, the home will belong to Sharon and Kevin and their three boys, who currently live in West Yarmouth. Kevin works as a landscaper, and Sharon is a healthcare worker. Soon, they'll have a home of their own on Cape Cod.
The 2026 Blitz home is one of four affordable homes going up behind the Falmouth ReStore, part of Habitat Cape Cod's continued effort to create more affordable homeownership for local families. It's built to net-zero standards — solar panels, no fossil fuels or combustion systems, air-to-air heat pumps, and energy recovery ventilation.
Voices from the Build
"More than a hundred HBRACC volunteers are on site in Falmouth turning an empty lot into a home for a Cape Cod family - by Friday. We hope the community will come out and see this incredible transformation for themselves. HBRACC and its members are making a lasting difference in the lives of Sharon, Kevin, and their three boys, and we're grateful for a partnership that's now more than a decade strong." — Wendy Cullinan, President & CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod
"This HBRACC donation to Habitat happens because our members know how hard finding housing on the Cape is. Builders and suppliers are putting down their paying work next week to pick up a hammer for their community, donating time, labor, and materials to get this family into a home." — Todd Duffany, HBRACC Board President, M. Duffany Builders
"We broke ground on this back in July, and it's something else to see it finally underway. A hundred-plus HBRACC members donate all of the materials and 2,500 hours of labor to build the house in one week, because they know exactly what this build means — a family gets to call the Cape home instead of leaving it. That's the whole point of the Blitz." — Peter Kimball, Habitat Board Blitz Committee Chair, JB Sash
"More than 60 Cape Cod companies are donating labor and materials to this build, and we want people to know who they are. The best thank-you you can give them is your next project — find them all at capecodbuilders.org." — Tara Cronin, Director of Resource Development, Habitat Cape Cod
"The Blitz Build also underscores the critical role the local building industry plays in addressing Cape Cod’s housing shortage. While scalable solutions require long-term policy reform and zoning changes, projects like the Blitz demonstrate what is possible when the community works together." — Stefanie Coxe, Executive Director, HBRACC
Visit, Celebrate, and Follow Along
The public is invited to stop by 805 Gifford Street Extension throughout the week to watch the build and support the professionals and volunteers making it possible.
Home Dedication Celebration Friday, September 25 805 Gifford Street Extension, Falmouth (behind the Falmouth ReStore) Ceremony: 1 p.m. Sponsored by KAM Appliances. All times are approximate and weather dependent.
Follow HBRACC and Habitat Cape Cod on Instagram and Facebook throughout the week for updates, or visit habitatcapecod.org and blitzbuildcapecod.org for more information.
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