Greg Swetz is directly overseeing the construction of the envelope of the house including the foundation, walls, windows, roof and landscaping. He owns BRC Builders, LLC and is the main subcontractor on the project.
Greg was born in Wisconsin and moved to St. Louis over twenty years ago courtesy of his wife, Daniela, a resident of St. Charles county. Greg’s interest in construction began while he was working as an electrician after leaving the Air Force. Following the wedding, Greg pursued this interest by renovating their first home, a dated and dilapidated fixer-upper. After the couple’s third live-in renovation, Daniela refused to live with any more drywall dust, so Greg turned his construction experience to outside projects. Seeing opportunities where others only saw problems, he successfully renovated a dozen properties--everything from a former drug house to a burned out shell of a split-level. Greg enjoyed the challenges brought by each project, especially in determining how best to reuse existing materials in combination with re-purposed and new products. He quickly became a regular at Habitat for Humanity’s Re-Store.
Greg’s foray into new construction came after buying a lot and building a spec home from the ground up. Finding he enjoyed the process, Greg began taking on more construction projects, designing and building a new home for his in-laws, and even eventually acquiring ground and building The Villas at Seckman Glen subdivision in Jefferson county.
Greg has been interested in alternative energy since wind and solar power came to the forefront in the 70’s, and has followed the evolution of the industry ever since. While evaluating different green technologies, Greg determined that the most cost-effective energy solution was saving energy rather than generating it, which led him to Insulated Concrete Form construction. He began experimenting with this new means of construction by building one of the villas in his subdivision out of ICF, and has since completed four ICF projects over the last two years (including his in-laws’ home). Dan and Michelle’s home is his fifth ICF project.
