THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND GROUNDSWELL CONTRACTING The first decade of the twenty first century marks a departure from traditional construction methodology and the arrival of improved sustainable practices in the field of cons truction services. Population growth and the rate of energy consumption, energy cost, carbon emissions, and other environmental concerns such as air pollution, global warming, landfill shortage, deforestation, shortage of resources, and resulting affects on human health are issues that have come to the forefront of American society. Federal energy policies , State Energy Master Plan goals and incentives and the pending International Building Code requirements attest to the present and continuing demand for informed, solution driven contractors. Groundswell Contracti