As the building of our passive house came to a close last week, the mess created by our seemingly innumerable small projects kept on building up. From trying to find 1 1/2″ screws to rummaging for the right size of 1″x4″ scrap, the process of finding the tools and materials to get a job done kept eating up more and more of my time. At its worst, I spent almost one hour looking for the correct bit to put in eight small screws. It appeared that the natural laws of entropy were in full effect at the build site, especially when fourteen people were frantically trying to complete a housing project.