There are thousands of possible methods and materials available today for building houses... many of them clever, innovative, and delivering a specific benefit to the homeowner. However, they all effect each other, the costs, complexities, and reliability of the overall home; and, many disrupt the home building process itself.

It takes a continuing process of assessment, experimentation, and analysis to sort through these options, and select just the ones that make a better house, but at competitive costs, and without upsetting the normal home building process.

It takes a thoughtful, cautious, yet open-minded builder.