#369: PRO TALK With Sustainable Builder Jacob Racusin, Part 2

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this Pro-Talk podcast, Patrick talks to Jacob Racusin about New Frameworks’s unusual business model, expanding the market for natural building, and how somebody just decides to start building with straw.

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0:00.0	hour of their time early in design you know what they're going to be happy with and you set them up for victory it's actually not hard in practice it requires like intention and communication and that to me is a matter of respect it's like having enough respect for the subtrades that they get a voice at the table and we set them up for victory.
0:27.7	Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry professionals.
0:33.0	This is senior editor Patrick McComb. This is the second half of our two-part interview with Jacob Rekuzin,
0:38.9	Director of Building Science and Sustainability at New Frameworks in Burlington, Vermont.
0:43.4	You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building
0:46.9	podcast at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast.
0:51.3	You can leave feedback and ask questions there too.
0:54.7	It would appear to me that your company has made it a priority to have a diverse workforce with regard to ethnicity and gender identity.
1:01.5	Do you think that's important for a business?
1:03.2	Does it make for a better business?
1:05.7	Yeah. I mean, yes, absolutely.
1:10.4	It's been a really fascinating journey as a, as a company and as individuals
1:14.6	in what justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion means for us sort of personally as and as a group.
1:22.2	And that's, I mean, that's been a driving force from us from the get-go in terms of access and
1:27.3	affordability. And, you know,
1:29.3	we have core members from our team in the LGBTQ community. And that's been, you know, really a
1:35.3	present for us and for women being part of our company and coming into our company and being
1:41.2	empowered to advance within the trades in a non-threatening and sort of harmful
1:45.7	environment. So that culture has been part from the beginning. And there has been more of a focus
1:51.4	in the last five plus years on diversifying the racial makeup of our company and making an inclusive environment for a broader racial diversity within our company.
2:05.0	And that's been, like, I just can't see how we could function as a society without advancing that.
2:14.1	Like, it's just on the most basic level.
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