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Re: GBlist: Kadulski comments on housing costs



John's kindly suggestion that builders and architects only need to be
educated to build more benignly takes the high ground.  But I am quite
certain that builders, architects or any one else in business generally are
concerned with the bottom line more than the moral one.  Around the world
this is what motivates folks.  Add to that, the average builder is
particularly conservative regarding new techniques and materials, an
attitude that sometimes has merit.  Remember polybutyl tubing?  However,
given an opportunity to use materials that have some kind of field run AND
are less expensive, it will be used.  Education does help too.  The field
runs come from people on this list.
        I remember talking to the Faswall people in NC a few years ago when
they/he was just getting going.  I couldn't use it in Virginia because he
couldn't get it to me when I needed it--ie that year.  Some things just take
time and the green building movement has a momentum one didn't see just a
couple of years ago.
                                                                Sacie Lambertson
I tried to no effect for a bunch of years to get the local lumber yard to
specialize in an  energy efficient line or at least to become much more
knowledgeable about these products.  I still think that's a good way to
go--get some of the large national DIY stores to pay attention and really
market green building and lots of people will be educated.  Most people who
come into these stores have questions about how to do stuff anyway.

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