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Feature

Structural engineer and expert framer Tim Garrison presents his assessment and recommendations from a recent framing inspection.

Professional Builder readers share their favorite business apps for tablet devices.

Dual-master designs are gaining in popularity as more home buyers face multi-generational living situations and are looking to age in place. The House Review design team presents four dual-suite plans that maximize flexibility and functionality...

Disciplined market comparables are key to predicting sales pace, setting prices, and developing market savvy tactics and strategies that can improve your net income. 

Operable glass walls take outdoor living to the next level.

New-home sales expert Bob Schultz offers proven tactics for increasing high-margin sales revenue through options and upgrades. 

To make Lean work, builders must first recognize and uncover any open wounds, a process too few builders are willing to undertake. 

For-sale multifamily housing is poised for an upswing, but it’s not going to overtake rental apartments just yet. There’s room in the market for both to succeed. 

When implementing integrated business systems, builders often make costly missteps along the way. Here are tips for adopting modern, integrated systems tailored to your needs. 

Product Review

3M Patch Plus Primer is the only product on the market that uses nanotechnology to create a quick-drying, strong, and even patch in just one easy step.

American Scrape features richly textured, solid hardwood floors that were inspired by the rugged beauty of the American landscape.

The new Stone and Timber Collection includes window and door trim, decorative millwork, louvers, post wraps, trellis systems, stone surround systems, stone columns, and stone balustrade systems.

GE’s newest washer, the GE Topload Washer, features the industry’s largest capacity (5 cubic feet) for top-loading models while using less energy and water than a traditional washer.

InSpire Roofing’s Slate and Cedar Shake tiles are now available in the company’s Wintergreen InSpire Cool Roofing Mix.

Contrado debuts its new Interactive Floor Plans and Customer Discovery Centers applications.

Kolbe’s Ultra Series 90-degree wall unit allows builders and designers to create dramatic corner windows.

Leviton introduces a line of residential occupancy and vacancy sensors that combine state-of-the-art technology with a sleek new design to provide optimal management of lighting and motor loads.

Marvin Windows and Doors now offers a range of factory-applied stain finishes, as well as a factory-applied clear finish, on its wood and clad-wood windows and doors.

BuilderMT, a provider of workflow management solutions for home builders, has introduced a Models and Options Manager module for its Workflow Management Suite.

ODL has expanded its lines of decorative doorglass to offer builders and homeowners even more ways to enhance a home’s curb appeal.

ODL’s On Hand In-Door Storage and Communication System is a customizable activity panel offering convenient and versatile storage on one side and decoration and communication opportunities on the other.

The thinnest AFUE-rated fireplaces ever made, the new REVO Series from Heat & Glo is available in square, linear, and vertical models.

Broan-NuTone’s Ultra Ventilation Fans and Fan/Lights with Ultra Sense technology combine the features of the original Ultra Series with new, convenient humidity- or motion-sensing capability.

 
 


 

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