The Alberta chapter saw Harvey thriving in commercial construction until the ’82-’83 recession hit. By 1985, he relocated his company to Ontario, where he embarked on a fresh journey. The first home the company built was finished in Acton, ON, at the Blue Springs Golf Club in 1986. At that time “cape cods” were popular, and the company built several of them throughout Acton, Rookwood, and Guelph area. Even though, global warming was far in the feature, the company started to implement some means of saving energy. This was the first house they built with geothermal heating.

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