Making your dwelling well

by Zinta Aistars
Published in Rapid Growth Media (Grand Rapids, MI)
November 1, 2012

Photography for the article by Adam Bird

Understanding houses as interconnected systems is a new way of thinking for those in the construction industry. When the housing market took a steep and long dip in 2008 and in the years following, many in the construction industry were forced to reinvent themselves. In so doing, a green building industry was born. 

 A sick home? We think of good health when we speak of living organisms, but when David Anderson, VP of Dwelltech Solutions talks about houses, he talks of them as living systems.

"A house is a system," says Anderson. "Water usage, electric, gas, and heating -- it all works together."

Understanding houses as interconnected systems is a new way of thinking for those in the construction industry. When the housing market took a steep and long dip in 2008 and in the years following, many in the construction industry were forced to reinvent themselves. In so doing, a green building industry was born.

"We have nine employees at our Grand Rapids and Holland locations," says Anderson, "and the majority of us are from the traditional construction trades. Now, I see us morphing the other way, back into ...



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