The Public is Actively Looking for EMF Consultant Help in building a health home.
Individual home builders overseeing their own home construction contractors and sub contractors, as well as Do It Yourself home handymen, are combing through the EMF Professional Directory daily in search of an EMF Consultant who can assist them with their low-EMF building project.
EMF Consulting for Building a Healthy Home is not only a very financially rewarding service at the going rate of $150/hr (higher if you have a background in construction), but also a very personally rewarding one as you help make the world a better place one home at a time.
Helping clients build their low EMF home often feels a bit like building Noah’s Ark. I see the rewards for generations to come in the clear sighted eyes of those visionary enough to see the necessity. In seeing it they have made it a priority to create a new way of building homes now while there is still time. Moreover, I see the number of people dedicated to this priority growing rapidly.
R. Smith, EMF Expert Consultant, CA
Here we outline the four main consulting areas that EMF Consultants are in high (and growing) demand for, although within these areas many specialized niches exist that can serve as a focal point for the particular types of EMF Consulting services you’d like to offer. Many consultants specialize in the type of consulting that can be done by phone, or internet.
1. Helping Clients Find a Low-EMF Building Location
This is just like it sounds, scouting out land and locations that offer little or no EMF exposure. Much of the preliminary legwork can be done online using celltower locator maps, topographical information and familiarity with an area. Additional legwork involves boots-on-the-ground site visits of prospective locations. It helps to have a pre-approved low-EMF collection of prospective individual-owner lots as well as acreages for larger EMF-minded communities in your bailiwick, as well as a professional relationship with a good realtor, or even the land owners themselves. In other cases a client will approach you with a lot they have already selected that requires “vetting” first by a knowledgeable EMF Consultant before following through with an offer to purchase.
2. Incorporating EMF-Safety into the other Healthy Home Elements in the Initial Design
Today’s EMF Consultant will also need to have a grasp of the big picture when it comes to healthy home construction. They will need to know the concepts of healthy home building in the bigger sense, and how to work with the various specialists offering their services in those fields:
- a low-EMF home
- a toxic-chemical free home
- an energy efficient home, beyond “Energy Star”
- an environmentally-conscious “Green Home”
3. EMF Consulting for Healthy Home Builders, Contractors and Sub-Trades
Consulting to a home owner/builder in this regard can begin with helping them identify and locate a healthy home builder. Or if the home owner/builder has taken on the task of contracting their own construction project and it is already in process, this can mean identifying an locating the myriad of sub-trades that will be involved in creating an EMF-safe construction site and eventural living space.
4. Identifying, Locating and Working with EMF Shielding and Blocking Building Materials
Our EMF Consultant Certification Training goes into depth explaining the composition and conductive properties of the various building materials used for EMF shielding and blocking. And this is the starting point for identifying the best materials. Locating the best products using these materials and working with the sub-contractors who will be installing them is an applied extension of this important knowledge.
In-Demand EMF Consulting Specialty Niches Within the Four Main Consulting Areas
In each of these main consulting areas you will find specialty niches that are in demand. One example is the demand for zero-EMF windows, such as aluminum frame E3 windows, which can be retro-fitted to existing homes in addition to new construction. Another specialty niche demand is for EMF consultants who work with electricians on zero-EMF wiring planning and execution. Similarly, EMF consultants working with architects can offer a wide range of skills in the planning stages of a new home, or a remodel. Another sought after niche consulting service is expertise in low-EMF building construction materials. The list of niche EMF home construction consulting goes on, and can be tailored to your individual experience or interest.
The Recommended Library for EMF Consultants Specializing in Home Building Consulting Services
In preparation for this EMF Consulting Specialty, here are my top picks for an EMF Consultant’s home building education – the most referred to books in my library of construction books – all ones that I have used firsthand during my own construction process. I highly recommend them, they will open up an entire new EMF Consulting income stream for you. All of these books are available from Amazon.com, (we choose to not receive any compensation from our professional reviews and recommendations).
Optimum Environments For Optimum Health and Creativity: Designing and Building a Healthy Home or Office (2002).
A classic work and an invaluable resource full of pictures, building illustrations, and environmental research data for anyone who wants to design and build a healthy home, office or creative work space. Contains research data, medical treatment, and building experience conducted by Dr. William J. Rea and his patients over the last 30 years at the medical treatment facility – Environmental Health Center-Dallas, Texas. Chapters include 340 pages of extensive information and building guidance, plus a homebuyers/renters checklist.
The Healthy House: How to Buy One, Build One or Cure One (4th Edition 2002 ) presents you with hundreds of healthier alternative building materials and construction techniques within its 670 pages. To help you locate suppliers, Appendix I contains the addresses and telephone numbers of organizations and manufacturers shown in bold type throughout the text. This is not a step-by-step instruction book on how to build one particular healthy house. Instead, it is a reference book that can help you buy, build, or remodel any house so that it won’t make you sick. John Bower has has written extensively on the subject in several books (The Healthy House Answer Book, Healthy House Building, and Understanding Ventilation) as well as in articles for such publications as Custom Builder, The Journal of Light Construction, and Mother Earth News.
Prescriptions for a Healthy House: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders and Homeowners (3rd Edition 2008) is packed with 330 pages of advice on sourcing healthier materials and their estimated costs, with information on every aspect of house building from design to interior finish. The authors—an architect, medical doctor, and restoration consultant—bring a singular combination of expertise and perspectives to this book. The helpful organization of the content guides each step of the construction process along with explanations and theory to enable you to more easily determine which modifications make sense for your building project.The result is a unique guide to creating healthy indoor and outdoor spaces, including many new resources, as well as specialized knowledge from several nationally recognized experts in the field of building biology. This unique guide will appeal to architects, designers, contractors, medical professionals, and homeowners.
Additional First Person Healthy Home Building Books We Recommend:
- Home for Health is the first person account of Hilton Tudhope who’s wife is severely electrosensitive, written in great detail specifically to help others save time and money by avoiding the mistakes, mis-starts and needless expense that they encountered in their year long process of building their EMF-free home near Barrie in Ontario, Canada.
- The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes is another excellent book by author, Angela Hobbs, (who’s two books about living healthy by systematically tracking EHS clues are included in our Top Ten Must Have Books for your EMF Library). This guide tells the story of how indoor pollution from a newly renovated house brought the author’s regular, healthy life to a standstill—and how she successfully overcame it. Citing existing research into the interaction of chemicals, hormones, and electromagnetic fields (EMFs), she again outlines a simple series of steps that readers can follow to identify problematic environments and transform their sick house into a healthy home.
- The Healthy House Quest: Finding and Building Housing for Someone with Chemical and Electrical Hypersensitivities is the firsthand story of Jerry Evans, a middle aged former computer engineer who details his adventures building a healthy house in the high desert of Northern Arizona near the town of Snowflake, as a final resort after suffering years of devastating illness from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) and Electrical Hypersensitivity (EHS). As the story of his quest for his own place in the world unfolds, he finds a community of fellow environmental illness (EI) survivors, learns how to build healthy housing, and finally finds stability, peace, and a place to call home.
Our Top Picks DIY How-To Books
Tempted to Build Your Own Low-EMF Home but overwhelmed by the prospect? Here are the best DIY books we’ve found to give you a real picture of building along with the confidence to get started, whether you opt for going with a contractor, or doing the contracting yourself.These are our top two picks for books (a series by former aerospace engineer turned handyman, Daniel Stih):
- How to Build a Healthy Home, and
- What Your Builder Should Know About Building a Healthy Home,
These books are designed to take the intimidation out of building a healthy home, simplify the process, get right to the point, and guide you step by step as to what you need to do when and why: Article Here with book reviews.
