Tips for Finding a Healthy Building Site

Reader Contribution by Paula Baker-Laporte Faia
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“Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were want to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers…they never began to build … in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and good food had made the liver sound and firm.”

Vitruvius, roman architect circa 20BC- The Ten Books on Architecture

Before deciding where to build our ancestors and their ancestors before them paid close attention to the site to determine how well it would support their health and well-being.

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