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List highlights innovation in materials, resource conservation, emission control and durability.

Until recently, landowners could sell wildlife lands to the federal government for a market value so fair it rivaled the profits from developing that land.

Discover what separates you from the competition, and then celebrate the difference in everything you do.

James Dunne's show home was built according to principles of feng shui, an ancient Chinese philosophy.

Rebuilding a damaged community demands teamwork and speed.

What has changed to make Art Rutenberg's curious eccentricity - franchising local home building businesses like fast-food restaurants - attract sudden interest across the country?

Two books each deliver 224 pages of photographs and explanations of very specific design ideas, and six keys to design.

Inland Homes Group builds mainstream housing with an average sale price of $210,000 and uses franchising agreements to define a business relationship.

Most developments use a conveyance system to transport water off site through a series of pipes and into a local waterway. Increasingly, however, public officials and developers want to use rainwater as a resource.

A conversation with a New York gave birth to Coscan's Atlantic One program, in which buyers get 20-25 hours of private jet service depending on the type of condominium purchased.

Tired of same old, same old? You might try privatized military housing be-cause the Defense Department is throwing billions at it under the 1996 National Defense Authorization Act.

Rancho Mission Viejo designed the village of Terramor, an environmentally sensitive iteration in Ladera Ranch, Calif., of the developer’s ongoing mission, to target Cultural Creative buyers.

Rebuilding a damaged community demands teamwork and speed.

Add the Charlotte Ethics in Business Award, a local affiliate of the American Business Ethics Award program, to the long list of achievements by Charlotte, N.C., luxury kingpin Simonini Builders.

Production builders are making energy and resource efficiency, durability and healthy indoor air business as usual.

The opportunity to do something meaningful at work is the best thing an employer can offer.

Tuckahoe Creek Construction not only won the Better Business Bureau’s local Torch Award in Richmond, Va., but also garnered honorable mention (second place) in the small-company category of the national competition this year.

The short answer about whether J.D. Power scores matter to wall Street: NO. If you look at earnings per share or ROI, no correlation exists between J.D. Power and any other measure of customer satisfaction.