Building Operations How to be an instant conversation starter In your personal and professional life, being easy to talk to is a skill worth developing. But good conversationalists are rare. There are...
Quality Management Quality and risk management Standards provide crucial communication, alignment and compatibility at an international, national, industry and individual organizational...
Framing + Building Envelope 12 Lessons From a Production Home Framing Inspector Structural engineer and expert framer Tim Garrison presents his assessment and recommendations from a recent framing inspection
Sales + Marketing Market Comps = Money Disciplined market comparables are key to predicting sales pace, setting prices, and developing market savvy tactics and strategies that can improve your net income
Building Operations 4 tips for the coming labor crunch A CNN Money article this week elaborated on what many construction firms already know: good labor is now hard to find. Some find this news...
Quality Management Call for entries for the 2014 National Housing Quality Award For over 20 years, the National Housing Quality Award has been helping some of America’s best home builders improve their operations and...
Building Operations How to use information to become indispensable This thing will change your life. It may appear to be another timemarking commodity. It’s not. This clock not only gathers...
Building Operations Socialize this There’s a new business buzzword spreading like Strep Throat. I’m betting it’s still in the early adoption phase, but these viral epidemics ...
Building Operations Leveraging the smartphone for a safer jobsite Considering the millions of people wandering around with chins buried in their chests, thumbs ablaze on glass keyboards, few would suggest...
Building Operations Visualizing your future This pottery is the future. OK, not the pottery itself. What the pottery represents… is the future. Our future. This ceramic...
