ROCKPORT — The heavy clouds failed to dampen the spirits of nine intrepid women who worked at the Hospitality House, 169 Old County Road in Rockport, as part of Habitat for Humanity’s National Women’s Build Week. An annual event, the build gathers area business women to volunteer their time and help with a project for Habitat.

Executive director of the Hospitality House, Stephanie Primm, was overjoyed with the help they received.

“We are so grateful to this amazing group,” she said. “We’re turning the garage into a much needed extra space because we are bursting at the seams. It will be a huge help to be able to do some of our emergency intakes. It will give us some very important private space for attention and time needed.”

Hospitality House now sits on eight acres and it is getting ready to greatly enhance the grounds.

Tia Anderson, executive director for Habitat for Humanity in the Midcoast area, said that although it is National Women’s Build Week, the work concentrated on Friday and Saturday.

“There are 50 affiliates around the country building on different days,” she said. “We are reconfiguring a garage for the Hospitality House, and much needed intake rooms and a bathroom.”

Anderson said 12 women worked Friday and Saturday. On Saturday, it was all volunteers from Camden Rockport Middle School and Friday it was volunteers from Camden National Bank.

“We won’t be having a Mother’s Day build as we have in the past with moms and daughters,” she said. “This year we just opened it up to groups.”

Habitat is currently finishing a house at 36 Brewster St, in Rockland. And site work and foundation work has begun on two houses that will be built simultaneously during National Home Builders Week, June 6 through 12.

Peter Fagonde acted as construction supervisor for the work on Saturday.

“We’re building a reception area,” he said. “”It will be an office, storage, reception area. There will be a new bathroom and room for a washer-dryer. We’re putting all new interior walls around so we can run new wiring, new insulation and a new ceiling. We removed the garage door and we’ll add a separate entrance with a little mudroom and insulate the floor.”

Fagonde said the work would continue.

“We got it all cleaned out and the walls framed,” he said. “After that, it’ll be a work in progress. When it’s done, it will be a nice space.”