Magazine Articles

Magazine articles that we have written or where we have been featured

Newsletter: July 2023

IWS featured in Construction News – January 2018

Our company had a feature story in the January 2018 issue of the Construction News, Austin edition.  The feature was…

Moving Beyond the Rain Barrel

November 19, 2015 Chris Maxwell-Gaines, PE, provided information, quotes, and images for an article about rainwater harvesting published in the…

Rainwater Harvesting for the Irrigation and Green Industries

January 15, 2015 Chris Maxwell-Gaines, PE, provided information, quotes, and pictures for an article about rainwater harvesting in the .…

Rainwater Harvesting 101

December, 2013 Fine Homebuilding featured a story in their Energy Smart Homes magazine about rainwater harvesting 101 concepts. It provided…

This Energy Efficient Home is All in the Family

October, 2013 EcoBuilding Pulse featured a story about one of our good architect friends, Alex Finnell. Alex owns Finn design…

Drought Prompts Residential Water Conservation

July, 2013 The Community Impact News of Northwest Austin ran a story aboutresidential water conservation solutions and efforts by Austin…

Austin Construction News – Part of the Solutions

November, 2012 Austin Construction News ran a short interview story on our company. It discusses how we started as a…

Heart of Gold and Pine

October, 2012 This article highlights an Austin home that was designed with rainwater collection in mind. We worked with the…

From Well Water to Rainwater: Whole-House Water System

July, 2012 We worked with a writer at Home Power Magazine on this article about whole house rainwater harvesting systems.…