Construction Practices

I was talking with a friend of mine the other day and I was telling him how I had seen this woman out west somewhere was building homes out of cargo containers that you see on ships carrying goods across the oceans of the world.

I thought that this was something. Of course him being an architect he already knew about this practice. However that did spark a rather lengthy conversation about other building practices and how everyone is trying to "Go Green." Now I think both of us were on the same page about going green and how good it is, but I think that he was getting a little upset about how people thought that this was something new and how some building practices that you seen "Green Contractors" advertising as new are in fact not new at all. Most of them you can actually trace back all of the way to the Native Americans.

Being a contractor and trying to give the client the best product that I can, not only now but for years and years to come, this statement and his attitude got me thinking. We always see how music and clothing always has patterns that it follows. So I was wondering if building practices follow a similar pattern and circle.

In the coming weeks, maybe months, I am going to try and do a lengthy research on the building practices of older times. Trying to understand why they did what they did, because even though a lot of make fun to question why they did that they did. A lot of the buildings and structures that they built are still standing today.

Stay tuned in the following post to see what I have found out and please feel free to join me in this research. I believe that if we really study to practices of older times we will learn more about what the land around us has to offer and maybe we will start giving back to earth rather than just taking it away.


Thanks for reading, have a good day and good night.