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Earlier this year, at the International Builders' Show, Warroad, Minn.–based Marvin Windows and Doors introduced the new operable Ultimate Double Hung Magnum window, which measures a whopping 10 feet high by 5 feet wide. The introduction “is exciting because it's the first wood window to offer...
This month's top shelf products include the Weather Guard steel box to protect valuables on the jobsite, the PC-12 cordless autospeed screw gun for making drywall installation easy, and a cool alternative to standard landscape lighting from Terra-Lume.
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Designing a house “by committee” is, as any architect or builder will tell you, a patently insane notion. Yet every year since 1984, The New American Home has done it in spectacular fashion, bringing together the world's leading suppliers and a host of consultants and valued trade partners to...
Get this: teens and young adults don't really like lots of fanfare in their rooms, much less a lame impression of what's cool with the kids.
The best reason to attend the International Builders' Show always has been, and always will be, the products.
THE 2004 HURRICANE season blew the cover off a weakness in the way stucco is usually installed, with a number of Central Florida homes springing leaks despite having suffered no wind damage.
ACCORDING TO ADVANCED Energy, a nonprofit corporation based in Raleigh, N.C., about 20 percent of a house's heating and cooling costs are caused by heat gained or lost through the windows. A leaky window that lets in cold air during winter and warm air during summer is one of the biggest sources of...
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THE QUESTION THAT WILL BE FACING attendees at the International Builders' Show in Orlando, Fla., next month is a simple one: How do you find time to attend seminars and visit the more than 1,600 exhibitors that will be displaying their wares in a show that feels as big as Rhode Island?
THE BAD NEWS ANNOUNCED EARLIER this year is that we may be facing serious hurricane activity for the next 15 to 20 years. This means a vicious cycle of destruction and cleanup for those along the coasts, but it also means harsher weather for inland dwellers as well.
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WHEN BARRY BERKUS ATTENDED architecture school, he says, no one cared about housing design. “It was beneath most of them,” he notes of his fellow students, who preferred civic or industrial design. But he saw a niche, he says, that would allow him to make a difference. To suggest that he's...
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CHOOSING CANNERY LOFTS as the 2005 Project of the Year was simply a no-brainer for the judges. Located on an acre and a half in Newport Beach, Calif., this little infill pocket has it all: great bone structure, abundant outdoor living spaces, a waterfront address, plenty of parking, and some of the...
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Even in the best insulated, carefully detailed new home, you're likely to see energy loss in the same specific areas found in a home built in 1960 or even 1980, although to a lesser degree.
For more product information, visit ebuild, Hanley Wood's interactive product catalog, at www.builderonline.com or www.ebuild.com.
With the recent buzz over rising condos values and the consumer migration toward cultural and retail centers, more and more builders are making forays into urban and mixed-use suburban development.
To satisfy increasingly savvy consumers, manufacturers are raising the bar on entryways in both materials and design
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The New Urban Challenge could not have been built without the support of its many sponsors, a select group of building product manufacturers and suppliers that contributed to this innovative project. A list of companies, their levels of sponsorship, and the products they provided, follows ...
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THE NEW AMERICAN HOME 2005 WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE without the generous support and contribution of products and services by the members of the NAHB's National Council of the Housing Industry (NCHI)/Supplier 100 and other consultants, contributors, installers, suppliers, and trade partners.
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