Building Products
- Historical Heating Systems Were Hot Stuff
- How to Get Smart Lighting: Start Here
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- Dollars and Sense: How to Specify Affordable Kitchen Cabinets
- Hot Stuff! Water Heaters That Are Finally Warming Up to Tech
- The Light Way: LEDs, OLEDs–What’s the Dif?
- In This Case, Fabrication Is Concrete Evidence
- Simple but Eye-Opening Changes to Kitchen and Bath Design
- Seeing Old Styles in a New Light
- Kitchens Need More Floor for the Money
- Get Set for an Electrifying New Product: Concrete
Architecture and Design
- Changing Spaces for Changing Faces: Designing the Multi-Generational Home
- He Wasn’t a Designer, but Eichler’s Homes Influenced Countless Others
- These Design Rules No Longer Rule the Day
- Fat Chance: How Design Can Help People Deal with Obesity
- Tricks Are Treats: 15 Ways to Make Small Look Big(ger)
- More Chefs Have That Good Sinking Feeling
- Foreign Designs That Aren’t Really So Foreign
- Americans and Europeans View Home Design Through Different Lenses
- Simple but Eye-Opening Changes to Kitchen and Bath Design
- Buildings Are Still Energy Guzzlers; Why Is That?
Commercial Building
- Could Modular Construction Finally Become a Disruptive Force?
- Standing Up to Mother Nature
- After 9-11, the Design of Buildings Changed
- In Oregon, Timber Towers Are Now Code Words
- Good Sensors Make Jobsites More Intelligent
- Modular Moves Ever So Slowly to Jobsites
- The Sporting Life Is Moving Downtown
- Organized Thinking Is the Key to Efficient Construction
- On Jobsites, Will There Be Nobody to Talk to in 10 Years?
- Which Construction Jobs Are Most in Demand?
Smart Cities
- Is It Possible to Make Buildings That Cancel Carbon?
- Challenges Smart Cities Face and How to Get Past Them
- Climate Change: How Cities Are Fighting Back
- Progressive Cities Don’t Really Care About Affordable Housing
- Traffic Congestion Often Puts Companies in a Real Jam
- Smart Cities Take Accessibility into Account
- How to Make Not-So-Big Cities Smarter
- For Struggling Rural Locales, Leaning on Small Cities Can Be a Way Back Up
- Tech-ier Houses Are Smarter and Safer Homes
- Wise Guise: Are You Already Living in a Smart City?
Money Watch
- Net-Zero Houses Net Payoffs Faster Than People Figured
- For Small Contractors Looking to Sell, Pay Attention to These Five Common Mistakes
- Compensating Salespeople: Stay Flexible, Get Creative
- FICO’s New Model May Boost Scores
- Dollars and Sense: Plugging Profit Leaks
- Run-Around on Payments? How to Catch an Evasive Client
- Financial Crisis Is Still Rocking the Construction Industry
- Should Paying Off the Mortgage Be a Burning Desire? Not Necessarily
- Not a Nostalgia Trip: 30 Years Ago, the Housing Market Was Healthier
- Don’t Blame High Housing Prices for Baby-Free Cities
Traditional Building
- Historical Heating Systems Were Hot Stuff
- In Five Big Cities, Old Is New Again
- Sensitivity Training: Tips for Adding, Carefully, to an Old House
- In the World of Preservation, Decay Can Be Enlivening
- Restoring Grand Central Station: Bad with Good
- Sears Lives! Its Accessible Kit Homes Changed Housing Forever
- Cottage Industry: Ideas for Perking Up the Small Trad Bath
- Seeing Old Styles in a New Light
- Oldies Are Goodies: Why Trad Places Count for Something
- Kitchens Need More Floor for the Money
Construction Know-How
- Jobsites Like Factories? Really? Really!
- Construction’s Labor Shortage Is a Male Call
- For Small Contractors Looking to Sell, Pay Attention to These Five Common Mistakes
- What the Tech! Integrating Technology Means Finding a New Kind of Worker
- Problem Solvers: Women Are the Answer to Construction’s Labor Shortage
- Standing Up to Mother Nature
- Can AI Become SOP in the Construction Industry?
- How to Make Warranty Calls Part of a Marketing Plan
- Game of Drones: How to Set Up a Working Program In House
- Time for a Change Order? How to Cut Them from Your Business
Green Building and Design
- Is It Possible to Make Buildings That Cancel Carbon?
- Net-Zero Houses Net Payoffs Faster Than People Figured
- Foundational Knowledge: Recycling Basic Construction Materials
- LEED, Yes; Energy Star, Yes; but What About Other Green Rating Systems?
- The Light Way: LEDs, OLEDs–What’s the Dif?
- Zero-Energy Homes Are Ready for the Big Time
- Homeowners Will Finally Shell Out More Green for Green
- In This Case, Fabrication Is Concrete Evidence
- Buildings Are Still Energy Guzzlers; Why Is That?
- Plastic Fantastic: Turning Waste into Usable Building Materials
Markets
- Progressive Cities Don’t Really Care About Affordable Housing
- Don’t Deep Six Design for the 55-Plus Market
- No Room for Millennials When Boomers Come Calling?
- Are Tiny Homes About to Begin Living Large?
- As New Homeowners Plant Roots, They’re Demanding Adaptable Homes
- Most Millennials Want to Call a House a Home
- Long-Declining Mid-Sized Cities Are Starting to Rebound
- The Unappetizing Appeals of Pancake Development
- Oldies but Goodies: Aging Apartment Buildings Are Affordable Answers to the Housing Crisis
- Optimist’s Club: Housing Will Fly High for Some Years to Come
Legalities
- Builders Who Take on Part of the Design Also Assume Some of the Risk
- Surprise, Surprise: Building to Fire-Resistant Codes Doesn’t Raise Home Prices
- Restoring Grand Central Station: Bad with Good
- Sexual Harassment on the Jobsite: What Do Workers Say?
- How to Save Bucks on Bonds
- How to Make Warranty Calls Part of a Marketing Plan
- Discrimination and Harassment: Managing a Construction Business in the New Environment
- Water, Water Everywhere; Why Do We Keep Wading In?
- Construction Insurance: Anything New? Yes!
- The Legal Risks of Delegated Design