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Quality Management

For over 20 years, the National Housing Quality Award has been helping some of America’s best home builders improve their operations and...

The Design Side

Great America, meet MainStreet America

A new theme park just opened in Houston, and it’s not Six Flags. MainStreet America is a collection of 12 show homes, ranging from 1,800...

Customer Satisfaction

Find Your Special 007 Sales Agents

You'd be amazed at the number of referrals a satisfied homeowner can refer to their home builder

Building Operations

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 ...

Lean Design

Avoid this costly mistake!

After my January 2013 article in Professional Builder, “3 Ways to Huge Profits Through Lean Design,” was published, I was thrilled to get a...

The Lean Builder

The immigration conundrum

As often happens in my articles and columns in Professional Builder Magazine, I set out to write one article, which quickly morphs into...

The Design Side

More reasons to buy a new home

Michelle Jennings Wiebe is helping to spread the message that new homes are better than resales. Wiebe, president and principal designer of...

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...

The Lean Builder

Design for failure

When I travel with my wife, or sometimes just run to the grocery, cleaners or hardware store, she frequently has to remind me, “Scott,...

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