Material and Resource Efficiency is often one of the more highly visible elements of green building. Construction as a whole accounts for about 40 percent of the materials entering the global economy, and in America alone, the home-building industry uses about half of the world's demand for wood. Statistics like these show the need for better ways of building. We pride ourselves at Fish Builders in constructing well-built, environmentally friendly structures, using about twenty five percent less material than the average home built in the United States. We are well versed in choosing materials that have less of an impact on the environment, including many products with recycled content, smaller carbon footprints, and a better end-life recycling potential.
At Fish Builders, we pay attention not only to the impact of what we build, but also to how we build it. We have an extensive on-site recycling program. Approximately 75% of the waste from a construction site is recyclable, and unfortunately most of that usually goes to the landfill. At Fish Builders, we work hard to recycle any products we can from our cardboard and other basic recyclable products, to the pop cans from lunch. All of our wood and drywall waste is separated from the trash and hauled to an offsite grinder.