BUILDER tells you how you can improve your homes’ chances of surviving the next big storm. Plus: News of severe weather affecting builders from Maine to California.
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One bit of good news that came out of last week's fires in Southern California is that fire officials determined that at least five master planned communities in San Diego County's Rancho Santa Fe area survived because builders used a fire-protection program known as shelter-in-place...
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Builders, architects, urban planners, and sustainability experts held a design charrette on Oct. 24 to come up with floor plans, construction processes, and product suggestions for Concept House Charleston in South Carolina, the second PATH Concept Home and the first in the Southeastern U.S.
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Mick Pattinson, CEO of home builder Barratt American in Carlsbad, Calif., is a lucky man. Unlike 1,342 households that had their homes destroyed by the 18 fires that swept through seven Southern California counties the past several days, Pattinson returned to his home yesterday. Pattinson said...
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TEMPORARY HOUSING HAS A WAY OF BECOMING permanent, as evidenced by the fact that many South Florida residents still live in FEMA trailers more than a decade after Hurricane Andrew. An as-yet-unknown number of Katrina and Rita evacuees in Louisiana may sidestep that fate and return to their former...