James F. McClister

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MVP Awards

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6th Annual Most Valuable Product Awards gold, silver, bronze winners

Market Insights

New Safety Recalls for Boilers, Fire Alarms, and Air Fryers

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commissioner today issued recall reports on a small handfull of residential products that, if used...

New Products

A Timeline of Building Product M&As and Why They Matter

The building products industry has been subject to persisting high levels of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the past...

How-to

OSHA's Preliminary List of 2023's Most Frequently Violated Standards

Work-related injuries are not uncommon. In 2021, a US worker died every 101 minutes from a work-related injury, according to OSHA. Of those...

Market Insights

What I Learned Peeking Behind the Manufacturer/Supplier Curtain

Every year for the past four years, The Farnsworth Group and Venveo have partnered to bring together sales and marketing leaders from the U...

Market Insights

The Product Categories Still Facing Disruption

Across the industry, despite improvements in lead times and availability, there are lingering reports of building product supply chain...

Market Insights

The 2023 State of Supply Chains

In Tony Matter’s first year as marketing director for M/I Windows and Doors, in 2014, guaranteed lead time for product delivery was one week...

Market Insights

A 2023 Outlook on Building Product Install Volumes

Building product demand in residential construction is likely to be down for the reminder of the year compared to 2022, but the researchers...

Building Science

Q&A: Understanding the Story and Science Behind CDA Wood

CDA Wood is the brainchild of Chris Bartimioli (pictured right), a snowboarder turned contractor turned building product manufacturer. From...

New Products

12 Award-Winning Products From Around the World

While the United States is a hub for high quality product design, manufacturing, and ultimately application, there is an undeniably...

Building Science

Q+A: Maker of The '100 Year Window' Explains Its Durability

It’s not everyday that a builder designs a window to be used by other builders. But that is the case for the 100 Year Window, a product that...

Market Insights

Contractors Identify the Most Popular Aging-In-Place Projects

Aging adults want to stay in their homes—or at least, that’s what the data says. In a 2022 study published by the American Association...

Market Insights

Staying Ahead of Trends and Handling Conflicting Visions in Custom Home Design

In this segment In Business, a video series from Custom Builder that provides a platform for custom home design, architecture, and building...

Building Science

Bridging the IAQ Knowledge Gap

Indoor air quality, to some degree or another, has been a concern since at least the 1960s, when the term "sick building syndrome" began...

Building Envelope

Top 10 Caulk and Sealant, Collated Nail, Deck Screw, and Structural Screw Brands

The residential building products and materials market is diverse. A single product category may have dozens of manufacturers and brands...

New Products

NAHB Announces Spark Award Winners

Since 2017, the members of the National Association of Home Builders’ Leading Suppliers Council have annually recognized achievements in...

Building Science

Building Materials Expert Shares Insights on Hail-Resistant Roofing

On the latest episode of 7 Minutes of BS, host and head of Pro Trade Craft Dan Morrison sat down with materials reseach expert Tanya Brown...

Market Insights

Building Prices Continue to Fall

While much recent housing data shows declines in home building and buying across the country, at least one section of the market appears to...

James F. McClister

Live Tracking: Material Shortages and Solutions

Building material shortages and their fallout are chief among the concerns facing contractors today. The Farnsworth Group in partnership...

Building Science

5 Products to Improve Fire Prevention

There are five classes of fire and each presents a significant threat to any home, regardless of its build (though, some types of fires are...

Surfaces + Coverings

Armstrong Flooring Files for Bankruptcy

Armstrong Flooring announced this week that it and “certain of its subsidiaries” have filed for “voluntary protection under Chapter 11 of...

Building Science

Improve Performance, Maximize ROI

Whether by evolving codes, standards, or homeowner expectations, homes appear to be getting greener—and have been for some time. Despite...

James F. McClister

Shortages, the materials impacted, and how contractors are handling it

Home improvement professionals in January reported more job delays than anytime since before August 2021, according to the latest PRO Home...

Building Envelope

Building With Blood On Mars

Putting humanity on Mars is not a matter of just getting there. It’s also a significant building challenge. Surviving the low-atmosphere,...

James F. McClister

Three Ways Buying Building Products Has Changed

Professionals in the construction industry are changing their buying habits, according to data presented in The Farnsworth Group’s latest...

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

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