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Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson

Director of Construction at Hibbs Luxury Homes in Park City, Utah, and guest on The Art of Custom podcast.

Sep 15, 2026

4:20
Craig, when do you know that this can be solved within the team and when you need to go to the homeowner?
4:29
Well, if it impacts the design, some sort of aspect of like what the finished product is supposed to look like, that's generally when I'll involve the client.
4:37
You know, if we have a good design team, then I can kind of skirt around the client still and, and kind of utilize the design team to help facilitate that decision.
4:47
Structural decisions, we do typically handle those in-house.
4:51
Those happen often enough to where it's just kind of second nature.
4:54
Let's reach out to the architect, let's reach out to the engineer, and just get those facilitated on our own.
4:59
Um, but generally, yeah, if it's not impacting the design or the overall outcome or look of the house, then any sort of change that won't impact that, we wouldn't go back to the client about.
7:51
Louis market.
MelodyHOST
21:57
With these two very different types of foundations, what does high performance mean between the two markets? Is it different?
22:05
I mean, up here, I think the biggest thing is just keeping the temperature of being so far underground from seeping into the house long term.
22:15
Obviously water.
22:17
We're 10 to 15 feet underground, so keeping that water from coming into the house is a huge thing.
22:23
There's a lot of different methods.
22:24
Um, out here in Park City, we, we do what's called a damp-proof waterproofing of the exterior foundation wall.
22:32
It's kind of like a tar liquid that gets spread along the, the foundation to, to keep water from seeping in.
25:44
So from a project management standpoint and a superintendent standpoint, you all have to be on your toes to make sure that we're on top of all of this.

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