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Had time to digest the information I shared on my construction experiences.

Well here some more food for thoughts, at least Lowe’s seems to have rethought their intentions to buy into Rona. And for good reasons.

Here is a scenario that I think will change the construction industry forever and at the same time mortgages and the way things are sold wholesale/retail to the buying public.

Imagine for a moment, doing away with mortgages. Well at least a very good and big substantial part of it anyways. Say bye bye to banks. Wouldn’t that be innovative. No one to hold the bag over you. And central bank policies of setting interest rates, hmmm… that might need to change. I mean why have someone dictate to you how much you should charge for making more money. Right, have your own interest rate policies and bring in the people en masse to your door to buy.

Here’s what I’m predicting of the way things will shape up and come to Life.

You buy your land and pay for the construction of a foundation. Then go shopping for your modular parts of your house at say, revamped Rona, Home Depot, Lowe’s. Most of the mix-n-match rooms all pre-ordered and financed through their financing arms. You custom order the room just to your liking. It’s then sent over the net to say whatever country where it’s built to exact quality standards of whatever country the customer lives. Then you finance/pay and get a receipt for an expected date of arrival ETA. You can do the same for custom living rooms at say the Brick, Lazy Boy, Leons or whatever furniture store has financing capabilities. Next on to Ikea, no more super big box formats like in Ottawa with tons of merchandise, tons of staff, tons of expenses around property taxes and utilities. Small store, in/out after you select and on to building your dream home piece by piece. Then there’s the plumbing giant for bathroom modular piece, sports/gym/fitness for exercise room and Toy-R-Us for expected new arrivals. So on and so forth. Get the picture.

Next thing you know, once all the parts are ordered, financed and ETA schedules sync’d between different stores with a logistics supplier, your hired planner/designer/architect/engineer oversees that everything is a good fit and conforms to regulation standards and you’re almost done.

All that’s left is to hire a crane operator, a couple of good experienced guys to snap the whole thing together and maybe a few unskilled labours to cart, cleanup and go-get this/that parts here/there.

Best of all the smartest money goes on snap-in snap-out based on family, age groups. Retired, down size out one part for an expected better quality of life at home in house hospital stay. Bye bye docs and nurses who don’t have time for you cause they’re over worked or fled to another country for more money.

Voila, no more need for by and large skilled Red Seal trades people with mega years of journeyman/apprenticeship programs and debts beyond coping abilities with little work in site.

With less need to train mega young generations of people and bringing them up to speed, more can be focused on getting them into other areas of the labor pool for training as the looming baby boomer population explodes and a serious lack of skilled and experienced people disappear.

What you’ll probably end up with are younger generations being fastracked into simulation rooms to built virtual projects based on the knowledge and expeience of old timers who have lent a guiding hand in setting up various educational scenarios. The days of 20 some odd years of journeymen/apprenticeship programs will become obsolete.

And that’s just the beginning and tip of the icebergS. Once other industries plugs into the proofs of concept and get the same bright ideas, who knows how the wholesale/retail/banking/mortgage industries will react to reshape, retool their products and services.

But it’s as clear as a whistle, on 1 thing. No matter how many immigrants, people we funnel into things, it’s still won’t be enough to keep our current economic lifeblood alive in the same way it’s been for the last at least 50 to 100 years. Yep, thanks to computers, labour will be done in present third world countries, along will all the assembled parts and pieces and shipped in the same way that car parts manufacturers do business today. It’s a simple matter of economics. Make the most money and profit. Why not, we’ve all bought into it right. Welcome to a brave new world.

Hang on to your hats, it’s just a matter of time before things come to pass.

Now where will that leave the commercial sectors, well stay tuned and I’ll start working on that.

The good thing here, reduced possibilities of corruption within many organizations – especially the construction industry.

Wow, wouldn’t it be wonderful not to have to pay surplus property taxes because bridge, road, tunnel, public transit systems came in way under budget simply because we were smart enough to order the parts & pieces in China, Brazil, Africa and have them shipped and dropped into place by a few good men & women. Now that’s smart and noteworthy on the political side. I mean who wouldn’t want to re-elect a smart cookie of a politician that tells the truth and delivers on the money. Anyone????

Anyways, got to go, off into the HVAC world I go… I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go….. Love the Disney stuff !