2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Affordable housing project; Green/Sustainable community
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Edmonton-based Axiom Homes wants to transport its tight fee-management business model to the United States.
The Washington State builder may be a small operation, but it has adopted best practices of volume builders
Struggling builders turn to remodeling and commercial work, some for the long haul.
“We have to be far more precise than a site builder due to how we assemble our units."
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Orlando custom builder says book has turned prospects into customers.
Chris Coleman doesn't expect his housing market to get well anytime soon. As president of Northfield, Ill.–based The Dearborn-Buckingham Group, he assumes, only half facetiously, that his company “will not sell a single home” in 2008. But don't count Coleman among the industry's doomsayers, because...
SMALL BUILDERS USED TO BE OVERLOOKED by builder software companies, but that's changed as Constellation HomeBuilder Systems seeks to revive BuildSoft; BuildLinks and Corecon keep making improvements; and products such as the Web-based cost-estimating system 6x6 Builder, by 6x6-Builder.com, hit the...
Alan B. Levan of Levitt Corp is profiled as part of the 2006 Builder 100.
In the late 1990s, Jim Norman, President of Norman Building & Design, a custom builder who designs and builds about 12 homes a year in Bend, Ore., knew he needed a Web site, but he never imagined how powerful a marketing tool it would become.
The term custom home conjures up a certain image in the minds of many consumers—a large home, for starters. They may envision a palatial exterior, soaring interior spaces, exquisite finishes, every amenity, fabulous kitchens and baths, to-die-for outdoor entertainment areas. But mostly they think...
ANY NUMBER OF CLICHÉD SUPERLATIVES COULD be used to describe the Washington development team of Jim Gibson and Sam Dunn: heroes, white knights, last-minute saviors, men among men. The terms would all be appropriate for a duo who recently wrapped up a whopper of a NIMBY saga.
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Any number of clichÉd superlatives could be used to describe the Washington development team of Jim Gibson and Sam Dunn: heroes, white knights, last-minute saviors, men among men. The terms would all be appropriate for a duo who recently wrapped up a whopper of a NIMBY saga.
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AS PRESIDENT OF THE NAHB, I AM ALWAYS pleased to let members know about the products and professional services that we provide. Our mission is to serve the home building industry, and the career center and conferences mentioned below are proof positive that we are fulfilling that mission.
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- Housing industry expert Bill Webb releases instructive guide that shows how to maximize sales potential and profits in lean times.
- NAHB's Building Systems Councils offer free brochure on the benefits of modular homes.
- NAHB encourages members to take advantage of a free savings analysis...
Follow the brick-paved walkway past the columns of Tennessee fieldstone, the wrought-iron fence wrapped in climbing jasmine, and the blooming crape myrtles. You'd almost swear the Craftsman-style door you're about to knock on is the entrance to a refurbished house in a historic part of town. And Ed...
Structure Development Group in Woodland Hills, Calif. is carving a new market niche with its hybrid business model.
HOME BUILDERS WORKING ON TEARDOWNS IN historic Myers Park in Charlotte, N.C., had a tough fight on their hands earlier this year when a neighborhood group brought up an arcane open-space rule that threatened to derail the lucrative teardown business for local custom home builders.
Given his success then, years ago, he was running Portland's top home building company, RMP Properties, closing almost 500 homes and grossing about $30 million annually. Then D.R. Horton came calling with the money Pollock thought he needed to grow the company into the regional powerhouse he'd...
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INSPIRED BY ITS SUCCESS IN pooling purchasing power, a group of Northern Virginia custom builders is helping others start their own purchasing cooperatives.