2006: garages, panels and homes
In 2006 the work at Drake Landing moved from foundations to finished garage rows carrying collectors, while the first rows of homes were completed. About 55 photos support this summary.
Source note
The galleries (nine visit dates) are offline. This page reflects only what surviving captions said.
January and February
A second garage row was going up on 6 January and a third row's foundations were being worked on, with waterproofing wrap on a home foundation. Roof trusses went onto the second row by 23 January. In February the control system was being commissioned and the mechanical room of the Energy Centre was called complete. By 23 February a display window had been added and the first-phase homes were being built.
May
On 4 May the captions covered the Energy Centre building, the show homes and the storage field. By 13 May the second and third garage rows were nearly done, with panels sitting on the second row. The solar collection page explains how each row was meant to work.
September
Landscaping began over the boreholes on 18 September, domestic hot water piping was visible in house walls, and collector work continued from a lift. By 26 September the first row of 12 homes and the second row of 14 were described as complete, the third row of houses was under construction and a fourth row of garages was going up. See homes for the finished houses and 2007 for what came next.
Quick answers
How many photos remain from 2006?
About 55 photos across nine visit dates. None are online now, but the captions survive.
Were the homes finished in 2006?
Not all of them. By late September 2006 the first two rows, 12 and 14 homes, were described as complete and a third row was still being built.