The purpose of the trip, according to Frank Michaels, president of Michaels International, the Seattle-based export firm that sponsored our visit, was to promote American building techniques and thereby increase the demand for our products. The voice on the other end of the phone line was telling me my framing company had been selected to go to Japan to build a “Supermarket of Homes” center using American-made glu-lam lumber and fasteners. “I tried to be nonchalant, but I doubt my performance would have earned an Oscar. Regionally we tend, as providers, designers, builders and Building Officials, to plant our feet firmly in the ground and believe not only is our way the best way, but the only way….to construct a building.įor your reading pleasure, here is the article from the February 1991 Journal of Light Construction written by my Uncle Neil: The article Amy shared, brought to mind to me the differences in perception of how post frame (pole) buildings should be constructed in America. It wasn’t until after his death in 2011 I came to find besides being a builder, he was an extraordinary photographer. Although my Uncle Neil was the only one of my Father’s siblings who did not stay in the Spokane area in adulthood, the few interactions I had with him over the years proved to me what an exceptional person he was. My cousin Amy was recently visiting Japan and happened to share on her Facebook page an article written by her Dad, my Uncle Neil Momb, written about his adventures in building in Japan.
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