Building Materials
Building Materials
2022 Custom Timber Home Building Outlook
A few of top tips from Mid-Atlantic Timberframes for working with timber frame providers, as well as what we’re seeing on the custom timber home building horizon for 2022.
Construction
Net Zero and Beyond
Different roads to energy and resource independence
Building Materials
Benjamin Obdyke Liquid Flashing
Benjamin Obdyke has expanded its line of flashing with the addition of a liquid-applied product
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Architecture
Design Details: Feel The Burn
San Diego designer/builder Rob Wells creates the Gnar (short for gnarly) House that breaks some rules
Best Practices
Resilient Design: Ready for Natural Disasters
Resilient design creates homes that can survive natural disasters and stay functional in the aftermath
Building Materials
Door Hardware
Nostalgic Warehouse takes crystal door knobs to the next level with a bright infusion of color that lends an unexpected glamour to their heirloom-…
Leadership
Why you should embrace the Hispanic conflict
Shawn Coyne is a writing partner to Steven Pressfield. Mr. Pressfield wrote The War of Art, the most important book ever written for people…
Leadership
Rosetta Stone, relevance, and retention
Living in a small sliver of the language pie Rosetta Stone enlarged, we owe a debt of gratitude to the public company. Rosetta has been shelling…
Leadership
“We’ve done this a lot. You...as a group…are stupid.”
Last week I went to the Chicago filming of “America’s Got Talent”, the NBC show that accepts all comers who don’t make it on American Idol, X…
Leadership
10 steps to mastering field quality – A positive indicator for a recovering industry
The 5th article in my series on Quality Management was just published by Professional Builder Magazine and appears concurrently on www.HousingZone.…
Best Practices
Lean Building Blog: What Lean isn’t
During an orientation recently with a room full of suppliers and trades for one of our “LeanPlan Workout” implementations, I was interrupted by a…
Building Materials
Canadian study says wood could be good building material for tall structures
A new study examines the potential of wood — typically used only in low-rise building — as an option in taller structures.
Structural Systems
Lean and Green Builder: Stick vs. panels - a greener way to frame
Looking at this topic, I am reminded of my days as a security system salesperson. The sales pitch for a door-to-door salesperson is safety and…