Why do you want these donations?
To free me from the cumbersome job of making a living selling building
systems technology I founded 30 years ago, and enable me to put all my
assets and resources to work showing this country and the free world how
to build better, faster and cheaper. And to launch the patent-pending “Yahoo”
of the building industry based on AEC, the universal acronym for architecture,
engineering and construction…AECinnovation.com Since this largest industry
on earth is based on innovation, and indeed the rest of the world, it’s
important that we have an innovation-only website I am co-hosting with
a major industry trade/professional publication.
If you’re so smart why aren’t you rich?
I am rich…in knowledge, experience, talent, enthusiasm, and acumen and
am just plain driven to demand no less than the very best of others and
myself. I’ve survived these fifty some-odd years of pioneering, trail blazing
and living outside the box by occasional jobs when there were downturns-recessions,
Jimmy Carter and other half-cocked government officials’ work. Like when
I worked for a manufactured housing company after inventing the double-wide
mobile home at 17, for the TOSCO Corporation in the late 70s when we couldn’t
buy gas, and for Hughes Helicopters where I was a rogue senior facilities
engineer who got things done.
Is this a scam, a con game? Are you a con artist?
If I’m a con artist, I’m a darned poor one. I mean dumb one. If it’s a
scam, it’s a lousy one. I’m going out on a limb here and at my age and
situation couldn’t stand for it to be cut off. Give me a chance to show
you how far and fast I can run.
What are your credentials for this?
I started out drawing in school instead of paying attention because I needed
glasses and couldn’t see anyway; I assumed everybody’s vision was the same
as mine and is probably where I went first wrong by making assumptions
I no longer make. I designed my Dad’s plumbing company building makeover
at 13, drew local builders’ plans until I ran away to California at 16
and got my first job working for Wilsen Development at 339 N Canon Drive
in Beverly Hills where I designed a 6 story + penthouse apartment building
at 240 S Doheny with the structural engineer’s help. After that, I developed
the first folding, then double-wide mobile homes. I worked with a colleague
developing a most innovative use of “wet” kitchen and bath cores together
with conventionally wood framed 2x4 walls with trusses and drywall to create
very fast conventional housing that exists today in various forms applied
in different ways. I became a major union framing contractor, then major
remodeler in Southern and Northern California. Then, 30 years ago, I noticed
large sections of very large concrete culvert pipe and imagined them cut
in half (made that way) for create instant precast concrete Quonset huts.
I joined with noted engineer William Simpson in Newport Beach CA to form
conventional gable-roof looking structures with this principle, constructing
an almost indestructible Santa Ana duplex prototype that was covered by
the news media. This system led me to today’s thinshell structures, which
use no rebar, little concrete and metal framing together where the whole
is greater than the sum of its parts.
What problems have you had, do you have? What baggage are you carrying?
None, except for a recent bankruptcy driven by a wrongful Northern California
civil judgment by a woman scorned when I wouldn’t accompany her up to her
apartment to see her etchings. And for using tax payments to pay for tooling
to start SteelCrete after being screwed by MetalCrete. For losing 3 homes
to my hair-brained schemes trying to house the masses and make a decent
living. For starting a corporation with 5 of my closest friends, one of
whom insisted on 50% of my SC I patent so he’d be “secure” then wrote a
promotional letter to his contacts about having “acquired 50% of the SC
I system. Then soon afterward, while a principle in the new corporation
conspired with a licensee’s employee to sell SC direct to his employer’s
own clients. For being imitated, conspired against, plagiarized, lied to
and about, taken advantage of, defrauded, infringed upon, sold out and
otherwise screwed, blued and tattooed. None at all. Every detail is available
for review; from my perspective of course
Do I need to investigate you, do a background search?
What for? I’m writing a book I can share that includes all the gory details
of this ride tiptoeing through the tulips. It’s an interesting, probably
amazing story about this kid who grew up drawing pictures of planes, trains
and automobiles instead of paying attention to nuns writing on blackboards
he couldn’t see anyway because he needed glasses and didn’t know it.
What will you do with the money?
I will launch a focused, intense program designed to make the most of new
technology…innovation. Not just my own, but others’ work consisting of
individuals with good ideas and have or haven’t gotten anywhere, companies
who have and are making progress with good ideas. I’ll develop the new
website I own the name for designed to showcase only innovation in my AEC
industry (architecture-engineering-construction). I’ll make house and car
payments and buy groceries. I won’t live like a monk, but will continue
to live frugally. I don’t believe in a materialistic world and know enough
at 67 to realize I’m not going to live forever and want to leave something
worthwhile behind instead of a Bentley with 250,000 miles on it.
Are you going to repay the money? Will I get my money back?
No, not in the form it’s given. That would be illegal. I can accept donations
from people who don’t dictate what I do with it or any other terms. You
will benefit in the knowledge that you will have contributed to enabling
at least one of the most innovative people in the industry to work at his
life-long love of architecture, engineering and construction.
Will there be any accounting?
Yes I will account for every dime and am certain that I’ll do you proud.
Help me to help the American and world building industry.
How will I know what you do with the money?
A monthly, perhaps weekly newsletter will go out to all those who contribute,
keeping all abreast of progress in all areas
