A few years ago I
took a hard look at
how we put up houses,
and thought there
has to be a safer, more
efficient way to build.
Consider conventional
practice: After
lifting up a framed
and sheathed wall,
and building the roof,
someone sets up staging
and moves it all
around the house for
running soffit and
fascia. Then he
moves it all the way
around the house
again for siding.
Then a painter
moves it all the way
around to stain.
Every day is spent
trudging over the
soft, uneven terrain
of a freshly excavated
site. Every day countless
manhours are
spent covering material,
kicking aside
scraps, chasing blowing
trash across the
neighbor's lawn, carrying
tools and
material up and down ladders, setting
up new work stations, running
to the lumberyard for another pound
of