The Make It Right Foundation seeks a better approach to creating sustainable neighborhoods in New Orleans.
If you've ever visited Texas, you know that the state?and everything in it?is really, really big. But did you know that Texas gets bigger? Every time it rains.
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Builder will rebuild retaining wall that collapsed in this San Antonio community.
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A “slope failure” at a Centex subdivision exposes lax enforcement of permitting procedures.
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The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee, ending its two-day August meeting, on Wednesday said it believed "economic activity is leveling out" but that it would keep the target for its federal funds rate at 0% to 0.25% and likely will keep it at "exceptionally low levels" for "an extended...
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Halted construction sites are not just nuisances to the cash-strapped developers of the properties, but they cause problems to surrounding neighborhoods as well. Complaints of scattered steel pipes, broken glass, and crumbling sheet rock seem to be rampant in overbuilt areas such as Florida. And...
New building code standard, ACI 332, offers builders a better alternative for building concrete basement foundations.
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Overcome coastal flooding worries by using factory-built homes.
A 2003 United Nation report made a grim prediction: More than half of humanity will be living with water shortages within 50 years. That same year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said 36 states expected to suffer water shortages in the subsequent decade. Those predictions have come to...