Construction and about design is that it sits right at the heart, right at the nexus of a cross point between where we, as human beings, use resources from our world, from our planet to turn them into something that creates shelter for us.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals.

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by Ace McArleton, General Director and Managing Partner for New Frameworks,

a high-performance homebuilder in Burlington, Vermont.

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Does it sound like I've done that a few times by this point, Ace?

Maybe just a few.

I'm grateful that you're on the show today.

Thank you so much for being here.

Yeah, you're welcome.

I'm glad to be here too.

Are you guys all healthy and everything okay at home?

We are, which is great.

Yeah, we're very, very glad that we are all healthy.

And you have a new baby, right?

I do. Yeah. Hopefully you won't hear her in the background, but yeah, she's going down for her

second nap this afternoon. She's 15 months. 15 months. Yeah, 15 months. That's like the golden age of

babyhood. I know. It's pretty good. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's been great. Can you tell me how you became a home builder? You're trained as a Mason, am I correct? Yeah, it's good. Yeah, that kind of bumps you forward to my like early 20s and how I got into it. We'll start wherever you want.

Sure. It starts a little bit. Yeah.

My, um, so growing up as a kid in Chicago, the suburbs of Chicago, um, a family friend of my

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