Improper window installation is epidemic, say experts. The good news, though, is that the information to put windows in the right way exists. Here are the five most important steps for proper installation.
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Sometimes geography provides the best niche of all. For years, Lance Johnson had wanted to build single-family homes, and when he moved to Northwest Arkansas, he decided to do just that. It proved the perfect choice. “I had no concept of how much we were in the right place at the right time...
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Some niches are so obvious, you practically stub your toe on them. As an active adult builder in Atlanta, Roy Wendt always attended seminars and conferences on serving his aging buyers. But it was a program on accessibility a few years ago that made him rethink traditional home plans. “The...
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Mark Martin has always worked in the unexpected slice of the market. Even as an employee in his father-in-law's design/build firm, he built contemporary homes—hardly the commonplace choice in colonial-heavy Northern Virginia. Now a builder in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Martin's Sandmark Construction and...
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As a builder of historically accurate new homes, Mack Bissette has become accustomed to a certain amount of disbelief about his work. “No one believes it's a new home,” he says. “Everyone thinks it's the best renovation they've ever seen.” It's an understandable assumption, given where Bissette's...
Rod Cullum has moved in the opposite direction from his high-volume counterparts. At Cullum Homes, he builds truly high-end custom homes, spending two to three years constructing residences that sell for $2 million to $7 million.
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Builder Steve Perlman, like many home builders, likes density but hates excessive growth restrictions.
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Rick Emsiek has a clever way to sidestep the density quagmire. He introduces residential density into commercial areas with flat growth.
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The Urban Land Institute (ULI) argues that an urban renaissance could be just around the corner. It points to several factors that are drawing people back to more urban living environments, including ...
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“I've been convinced that there were a lot of good things tried in the 1960s, and unfortunately, the only failures still visible are the housing failures,” notes Cushing Dolbeare of Mitchellville, Md., a senior scholar at the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies. “People tend to spot...
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A body of new research shows that density impacts a region differently, based on other choices made by homeowners. It is neither a quick fix for sprawl, nor a Pandora's Box that will unleash drugs and crime on a neighborhood.
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The dismantling of the Orlando, Fla., Naval Training Center was one of the largest demolition projects in the country. A total of 4.5 million square feet was bulldozed, including 256 buildings, 200 miles of underground utilities, and 40 miles of asphalt roads. About 600,000 tons of clean concrete...
Some of the country's premier builders have been tapped to put up houses at Baldwin Park, which is located less than three miles from the center of Orlando. At build-out, projected for 2008, it will have 1,200 detached homes, 2,400 attached units in townhomes and apartments (for sale and rental)...
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Shatter-Resistant Blade for Utility Knives
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Shatter-Resistant Blade for Utility Knives
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Here are three companies that took different paths to creating an integrated system that manages the building life cycle.
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Technology consultants who talk only about the features and benefits of their products miss the point. Innovative technology is important, but a project can succeed only if the company is ready to make some changes. Here's how you can prepare for new technology.
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Anticipating that the competition to close sales will increase as interest rates rise in 2004, GE Mortgage Insurance launched a Web site in January that lets builders offer buyers discounts on consumer items.
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- SpeakerCraft's Proficient Audio Systems now features two new programs.
- M&S Systems markets intercom to residential builders.
- Xplore Technologies Corp. releases affordable heavy-duty Tablet PC for builders.
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New construction-management software aims to deliver the features of an integrated back-office system to small builders.
Pardee, like Beazer, Shea, and many other big builders, has recently given the residential PV industry an enormous boost. Each has begun to offer PV packages standard options in many of its communi ties. As a result, the solar people are over whelmed (not to mention overjoyed) with new residential...
A Phoenix-based contractor has taken home an award for environmental leadership from Arizona's governor.
No one can say that Cornell University's master's degree in real estate doesn't provide real world experience. Among students' class projects: evaluating raw land and providing a full-blown feasibility report to big builder clients such as Pulte Homes, Toll Brothers, Lennar Corp., and Southern...
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Entry deadline is April 9. The 41st Gold Nugget Awards competition will recognize design and planning excellence from 14 Western states and the Pacific Rim countries.
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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) predicts that the median price for new homes will increase by 5.1 percent.
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Billing software from TrueLine helps McMillin Cos. save the cost of 2.5 staffers.
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Imagine you're a builder who wants to put up 4,300 homes on 638 acres in St. Charles, Mo. It's a billion-dollar, mixed-use project. Half the site will have to be raised out of a 500-year flood plain, and stormwater runoff will require that 75 acres of lakes be created. Over the course of two public...
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Residential growth around Chicago and many other places in the United States has squeezed older cemeteries to the point where there's no place left for the newly deceased.
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Toto, the company that makes most of these high-tech wonders, hopes to convince U.S. customers that American toilet hygiene is archaic.
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New Web-based tool helps builders track and manage warranty information.
Hallmark had hoped to help the fire victims quickly and inexpensively by rebuilding entire neighborhoods, block by block, in Scripps Ranch and Harbison Canyon, using Hallmark's customary production systems. But the company soon realized that strategy would be impossible, thanks to the complexity...
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A new report from the Washington-based National Center for Housing and the Environment has concluded that engaging in land market monitoring gives communities a valuable tool that can make smart growth even smarter.
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The Colorado Association of Home Builders is bracing for a fight over a constitutional amendment that will seek to overturn the state's construction defects law.
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Washington Mutual has opened up a mortgage center in Harlem, N.Y., as part of a five-year partnership with the Johnson Development Center, a company run by former basketball star Magic Johnson. Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, are targeted as future sites for the home loan centers.
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The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) claims that the Bush administration's actions on housing policy don't match its rhetoric.
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Pulte is partnering with a top Southwest framing and foundation company in a quest for quicker cycle times and lower costs.