A touchscreen system allows H2O Walls' Computerized Custom Water Features to flow at a pre-programmed rate and time.
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Leading tech firms combine forces to offer best-of-breed products to builders.
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Construction management software provider Builder MT is now marketing and supporting Corrigo's Web-based warranty application.
The days of sticking a computer station anywhere in the house with an outlet are numbered at least for some of The Drees Co. homeowners. They can forget the work station in the family room, the kitchen, or even the living room. Chief architect Bill Spears designed a home for the Kentucky-based...
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A FAMILIAR COMPLAINT among builders is that they can automate their own companies, but getting subs to buy into such automation is still very difficult.
A new Internet Home Alliance pilot program looks to use technology to ease the pain of doing laundry.
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As the vice president of sales and marketing for the Ebbert Co., a construction manufacturers representation firm, Troy Ebbert's office is his car. He fields product inquiries, makes sales calls, and manages a sales team of eight—all from his driver's seat.
While the computer-controlled home is probably still a few years off due to the cost and complexity of whole-house control systems, the machines are rapidly working their way from the home office into entertainment spaces. You'll be seeing a lot more about computers and entertainment in the months...
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- The NAHB's education simulation program is named as a finalist for the first Computers for Youth Family Learning Software of the Year Award.
- The National Housing Endowment receives a $1 million gift from The M/I Homes Foundation.
- The NAHB releases a national study of more than 350 builders'...
Many small businesses lack plans to weather—and recover from—a disaster, whether it's natural or man-made, unique to their business or affecting an entire region.
A common-sense construction philosophy combined with back-office software keeps cycle time down for this Texas home builder.
A FAMILY OF FOUR DECIDES TO SPEND the first night in their new home watching a movie. After dinner, they retreat to the entertainment room to try out the new media server and voice command system from Honeywell and its partner, software maker DigitalDeck.
THE PROBLEM WITH DISTRIBUTED AUDIO systems up until now is that most of them worked from a central media server. The systems could send audio throughout the house, but the homeowner couldn't initiate audio from every room.
Microsoft's new platform for home entertainment and home control, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, could very well become a strong force in the home building industry.
Many builders we've talked to have experienced serious slowdowns or have had to scrap their computers altogether because of spyware invasions.
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THE COMPUTER HAS MADE life easier for architects, builders, and contractors who send and save files and images. The necessary hardware and storage space can get pricey, however. Santa Monica, Calif. –based Xdrive offers a solution: an Internet-based virtual drive that allows construction...
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Spyware Alert!
The message is clear: Spyware is a threat to all industries and home PC users, and home builders are not immune. If anything, builders are more at risk, since so many builders don't always put computers issues on the front burner. Here's how to fight the spyware plague.
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The message is clear: Spyware is a threat to all industries and home PC users, and home builders are not immune. If anything, builders are more at risk, since so many builders don't always put computers issues on the front burner. Here's how to fight the spyware plague.
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Most industry analysts agree that autonomic computing is a vague concept that's been tough for large computer vendors to sell.