Projects
HousingZone's projects, project ideas, trends, and tips for residential builders, remodelers, and architects serving the residential construction industry.
'Buyer, beware!' might be advisable for consumers, but 'Remodeler, beware!' is appropriate when it comes to state laws concerning home-improvement...
As the topic of suburban sprawl and anti-growth legislation heats up with the upcoming federal elections, the Sierra Club recently released its...
Seeking to restore 'scenic equilibrium' to the shores of Lake Tahoe, the same regional agency that re-cently won a long-running property rights case...
Now that the fees charged to a builder in a Livermore, Calif., project have topped $100,000, the natural question is how high they are everywhere...
For years now, new and higher impact fees have been the nemesis of home building associations in most places across the country.
Sometimes it’s easier to do a tear-down or to let an existing building stand empty rather than jump through the hoops required by complicated, out-of...
Florida home builders would have been subject to penalties of as much as $1,000 a day for missing promised delivery dates on new homes under a bill...
A phone call, a fax and a drive out to the site are the usual ways builders commonly track the progression of land development.
Wherever they stand on the continuum — all-out effort to comply, head-in-the-sand denial that the rules exist, or somewhere in between — all...
The effort to merge the three major building codes — BOCA (Building Officials and Code Administrators), ICBO (International Conference of Building...
