Old growth trees are almost depleted and lumber prices are rapidly escalating.

The construction materials industry is engaged in a rapidly evolving series of product innovations and construction changes necessary to meet new regulations and environmental concerns. Just as builders are being made aware of these new products and processes by extensive media coverage, the potential home buyer is also being simultaneously educated and is becoming more and more eager to find the enlightened builder who is willing to incorporate meaningful change. This is especially true of the environmentally concerned Millennial Generation which is now coming into income levels which can allow environmentally responsible home ownership.

However, one major obstacle to the Green Movement is the conventional home contractor. One of the causes of Builder resistance to technological change is because home builders have existing, proven material sources and workers trained to run a Skil saw and nail gun. Even though they are very aware that they must soon change or die, immediately abandoning a lifetime of doing something even though now completely obsolete is extremely difficult and so builders will continue to use such a method until sophisticated customers demand change.

Home building is the only major product category which still attempts to create a finished component at the home site where it then must be nailed together with total exposure to potentially hostile weather conditions including rain or snow which warps exposed wood. In such a system, it is almost impossible to maintain an efficient production schedule and/or a quality product. Time and material waste, accidents and assembly mistakes are inherent in the process and there is no way to avoid cost creep.

E-Tech Home Systems, Inc. is committed to the process of eliminating all building site product production except the rapid, fool-proof assembly of out-sourced, high quality components which assemble quickly to provide a dry inside workspace. This outsourced factory production method is used in all other major consumer product categories except Home Building. Other than learning how to run a screw gun, no construction site re-training is necessary.

Stick Building is environmentally irresponsible, is wasteful of expensive materials and produces a finished product which is compromised. Although potentially using materials that may be labeled “sustainable” the finished product is completely un-sustainable. The completed, stick-built home is difficult to maintain over its useful life and then is eventually impossible to repurpose so is bull-dozed and disposed of in a land fill.

Major builders know that the time is rapidly approaching when the public will not accept a costly, obsolete, environmentally irresponsible way of producing a compromised product. Unfortunately, many builders who are less aware will naturally resist change for as long as possible. It is the objective of E-Tech to help them do the right thing and, while delivering a better product, became more profitable by so doing.