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101 Best Companies To Work For In The Residential Construction Industry

Neumann Homes Inc. in Warrenville, Ill., is No. 34 on Training magazine’s 2002 ranking of companies — in all industries — that “excel at human capital development.

Try this experiment: Visit a home you built 10 or as recently as five years ago. More than likely it was built without a basic structured wiring system.

Rapid change is here to stay.

Among these 101 companies, compensation takes many forms — salary, commission, bonus, profit sharing, retirement plans, paid benefits, time off and a list of perks limited only by your imagination.

If you do not continue to grow in your role, if the people you work with don’t grow, and if your organization doesn’t improve at a fast enough pace, you fall further and further behind those that do.

At a firm as large as Huntingdon Valley, Pa.-based Toll Brothers Inc., which has more than 3,000 employees in 21 states, keeping connected is no small feat.

Once relegated to a hacker teenager’s basement bedroom or usurping a corner of an underused formal dining room, personal computers are everywhere today

My father was a builder, and I was on job sites in my hometown of Memphis, Tenn., when I was 12 years old

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In a recent Sears survey of 100 top home builders, 71% said home buyers ex-pressed interest in buying energy-efficient appliances.

The reality that home offices are increasingly where home buyers earn a living is the biggest reason more builders are offering structured wiring packages.

Visit five model homes designed for families, and you will see at least four with flex spaces modeled as study halls or technology lofts.

The Gallery Collection of medicine cabinets features mirrors on the front and back of the cabinet door

The heart of the Jobclock system is a weatherproof, tamperproof, battery-powered time clock that can be affixed and left at a job site

For fire resistance, the company’s Fishscale siding is made of solid vinyl rather than polypropylene.

Designed for homeowners who entertain, the Architect series of appliances em-phasizes stainless steel and contoured handles.

Noise-reducing features of the HSX15 central air conditioner include a patent-pending fan blade design and a cabinet with an insulated compressor compartment.

Pro Power work gloves have reinforced deerskin thumbs and fingertips along with deerskin palm pads and knuckle straps sewn with Kevlar.

The Metallique framed cabinet comes in two plated aluminum finishes — polished chrome and brushed nickel — to complement faucets, towel bars and other bathroom accessories with the same finishes.

Designed for basements or rooms built over concrete slab, the Subflor system consists of 2x2-foot panels that are 7/8 inch thick and interlock to form a smooth surface ready for a finished floor covering.

Designed for home buyers with more conservative and traditional tastes, the Plymouth is a low-profile, one-piece toilet with carved, molded trim at the foot.

Originally available only for top-of-the-line electric ventilating skylights, the exterior Heatblock awning now is offered for the company’s manual venting skylights and fixed skylights