Building Products
- Material Questions Have Some Thoroughly Modern Answers
- Concrete Development: Quartz Now Mimics It
- Some Say Connected New Houses Are Now the Standard; Really?
- Most Than Ever, Companies Are Onboard with Off-Site Construction
- Appetizing Thought: From Food Waste to, Uh, Building Materials
- 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?
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
- Smart Cities Still on a Sharp Learning Curve
- For Disabled People, Smart Cities May Not Be a Wise Idea
- Cities Are Putting Jobs and Builders Together
- Urban Planning: The Inimitable Andres Duany on the Wisdom of Crowds
- Should You Make a Dumb Building Smarter?
- New Tech May Help Solve an Old Problem: Housing Affordability
- 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
Money Watch
- Easy to Say–Stop Handing Out Free Estimates–but Hard to Do?
- How to Prevent Brawls over Change Orders
- Talking Costs Is Bad for Business
- Risky Business: How to Plan for and Quantify Uncertainty
- For Small Construction Companies, Handy Tips to Max Out Cash on Hand
- The Basics of Bidding and Estimating
- 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
Traditional Building
- These Places Make McMansions Look Like ADUs!
- Walls In Old Houses Were Very Well Dressed
- Heard of Pre-Fab Houses? Probably; Heard of Plug-In Houses? Probably Not
- 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
Construction Know-How
- How to Prevent Brawls over Change Orders
- Most Than Ever, Companies Are Onboard with Off-Site Construction
- Remodelers: The Secrets to Your Success
- Take the Bottlenecking Out of Your Construction Business
- Crew, You? Team of Subs May Be the Best Way to Work
- The Basics of Bidding and Estimating
- 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
Green Building and Design
- Making Green Buildings Is One Thing; Using Them Is Quite Another
- 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?
Markets
- Golf Course Communities: No Longer Up to Par
- Some Say Connected New Houses Are Now the Standard; Really?
- Go to Waste: Big Houses Don’t Really Live Big
- Under-the-Radar but Buyer-Friendly Features
- Surge in Single-Family Rentals Is the Real Deal
- Heard of Pre-Fab Houses? Probably; Heard of Plug-In Houses? Probably Not
- 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?
- Can Tiny Homes Live Large?
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