#276 - Josh Salinger of Birdsmouth Design Build
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🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Josh Salinger discusses his approach to designing and building high-performance homes that are durable, healthy, comfortable, and energy efficient. The guys debate strategies for growing a construction business while maintaining quality and employee satisfaction. The conversation also touches on training builders, integrating design and construction, and creating a sense of mission for employees.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up man? Hey, how are you? Oh, I'm good. Um, double podcast day. Well for us. Yeah, |
| 0:13.4 | for us, but I mean, no one knows. We could pretend that it's not double podcast day. It |
| 0:18.1 | went well. I, uh, I thought maybe I'd lose steam, but both of our guests, um, were great. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, but we talk, we talk. I'm sorry. I cut you off. I was going to say we're the, |
| 0:30.8 | the podcast that we're going to talk about right now is Josh Salinger from Bird's mouth design |
| 0:36.9 | build out in Portland, Oregon, um, which was a good conversation. There's so much to talk to him |
| 0:42.7 | about if you're unfamiliar with him. Um, don't know who he is. Check him out. He does a fair amount |
| 0:48.5 | of education, a ton of writing. He's very involved with the building community. Um, so he's a really |
| 0:54.9 | good resource. Yeah, I mean, he's, he is very driven by building better homes from for climate, |
| 1:03.8 | but he goes on to say, you know, it's for society. Um, and there's a lot of talk about energy |
| 1:11.6 | efficiency and building more energy efficiency homes, which, you know, contrary to the conversation |
| 1:16.8 | we had a couple of weeks ago where there was an argument against that Josh actually kind of |
| 1:22.4 | backed up what he was saying is that energy efficiency isn't the focus here. It's the byproduct |
| 1:28.4 | of what is in focus, which is a great way to put that. And I think actually really helps you |
| 1:34.7 | understand the, the, the importance of building better, uh, and not just building more energy |
| 1:42.1 | efficient. Yeah. And the, he discusses how a lot of the issues arise from designing a home and |
| 1:50.0 | then trying to make it energy efficient, rather than designing with that in mind, um, from the |
| 1:57.0 | get go and just creating and having the thought process dialed in that leads to more energy efficient |
| 2:04.0 | style of home. So, uh, I honestly, I want to get him back on. I have a lot still to ask him. We |
| 2:09.9 | discuss some business, um, ideas. So, uh, I definitely somebody I want to hop back on on another |
| 2:16.8 | podcast with. I think you will all enjoy this podcast. Um, so buckle up. And, uh, just for, |
| 2:24.2 | for what it's worth, you know, what you just said. A lot of this stems from the disconnect between |
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