best answer I could come up with at that point was ‘Well, I compost and recycle. Is that enough?’ Well, clearly not.” “I couldn’t ignore the reality of what I knew,” he adds. “The building industry needs a transformation. Sitting outside and whining about it wasn’t going to accomplish much, so I thought ‘Let me get into it.’ That’swhywe started Tooketree Passive Homes.” After spending some time researching different building techniques, Rick and Melinda settled on panelization because they found “it was far more productive than building on site.” “It’s faster, it’s overall more economical, and it dramatically reduces waste,” Rick explains. Additionally, withprefabrication and panelization, materials are not being stolen or damaged on site due to unforeseen delays or weather conditions. Rick cites a recent real-life example of an apartment project that went up in Huntsville. Late last year, “all sorts of wood” was delivered to the site, and that wood ended up sitting there exposed to the elements throughwinter. By the time they started building with it in the spring, it had gotten moldy. The builders ended up using it anyway and now that mold is likely in the building. “With panels, there’s no chance of that happening,” Rick says. “It’s all done inside, in our factory. It stays clean. And we can fabricate the panels while the contractor is doing sitework, which saves a lot of time, and saving that time usually saves money.” So they settled on panelization, but they didn’t just want to use THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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