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Lumber may be the best example of the connection between a builder and his materials.
Pat Hamill's plans for the 2001 International Builder's Show in Atlanta.
Achievement Award winner Sarah Susanka believes in quality, details, craftsmanship and comfort over square footage.
Look around downtown for obsolete buildings and old industrial sites.
Most builders manage their in-house production schedules quite well. But scheduling subcontractors is different story.
Field superintendents are our industry’s first and last defenders of quality homes. Their challenge is to build quality homes, sometimes despite a building production system that does not always work right.
Every year we push ourselves to out-do the year before. We push for more revenue and a higher return on those associated efforts.
Pinehills builders has bundled high-speed Internet access, satellite TV (from DIRECTV) and telephone services in packages that give all their homeowners the options they want now, and may want in the future.
So what is it that separates your company in the marketplace?
Finding and acquiring land has always been key for a successful home builder. But increasingly, the skills that help builders and developers become more profitable than their competitors are those that improve the process of obtaining necessary zoning ...
How a development team educated the first town in America about Smart Growth and landed a 3000-acre master plan approval in the process.
Focusing on the processes and people that are our business with an eye toward improvement reveals flaws we’d rather not see. But it is as Michael Dwight says: a problem can’t be solved until it has been acknowledged.
Achievement Award winner Casa Verde Builders have given at-risk youth and distressed neighborhoods in Austin a chance to rise from the ashes.
In 2001, PB has chosen an inspirational and dedicated recipients as Achievement Award winners.
Illinois-based Ryan Homes illustrates how a new web-based probram (Buldview) keeps builders and buyers on the same page throughout - and even after - the construction process.
Achievement Award winner Peter Anderson applied his knowledge as a licensed electrician and contractor and developed a four-year Building Trades program at a Virginia high school.
Maryland Governor Paris N. Glendening is putting more political chips into the Smart Growth kitty.
Although builders can sell just about anything in Atlanta, Pete Calabro created a neo-traditional community that goes a step further.
Ralph and his wife, Goldy, both former accountants, started building homes in 1955.
The North American subsidiaries of British Giant Taylor Woodrow plc used to operate in Canada, California, Florida and Texas essentially as three independent companies, but that has changed.
Longtime housing industry consultant Steve Dudley hasn’t lost his Midas touch for cutting to the core of challenges facing builders.
When it came to enhancing affordable homeownership and rental opportunities across the nation, the 106th Congress saved its best act for last.
Builders and buyers barely even register on the solar power spectrum. It still seems cost prohibitive to both parties, and few buyers are interested enough to spend their amenity dollars on it.
Achievement Award winner McStain Enterprises has a simple mission: 'Building a Better World.'
Can you imagine pitching songbirds, geese and ducks as the friendly neighbors of future homeowners? How about offering expanses of green space, bounteous with native grasses and plantings? Or wetlands dotted with ponds and cascading streams? How about ...
Achievement Award winner PATH is speeding up the process of bringing new technologies to the industry.
As the volume of small-package delivery dramatically rises, there will be more cooperation among competing package delivery organizations to share distribution costs. And as this need for efficient distribution grows, land planning will be impacted in ...
It will happen one day. Maybe it already has. A technology consultant will conduct a review of your systems and suggest a company-wide replacement of hardware and software. Try not to listen, even though the thought of fixing everything at once is sedu...
Over the years, Forecast Homes has encountered marketing challenges at several of its new home communities. In each case, solving the problem took a reexamination of the marketing plan.
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