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Education + Training

How Should Construction Hiring Managers Connect With the Next Generation?

As the shortage of skilled construction labor becomes more dire, there are 5 questions hiring managers should ask themselves before recruiting young prospects

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Home Technology

The Builder Experience: Keys to Customization for Homeowners

Providing buyers with an authentic, customized, and well-informed experience is essential for builders to build trust and increase sales for higher priced custom packages and add-ons in homes

Business Management

Everything You Need to Know About Construction Bonds

Everything you need to know about construction bonds from the four types of bonds to what contractors need for getting bonded

Builders

Pandemic Precautions for Home Builders: Keep or Purge?

Home builders appear ready to purge much of what they’ve done during the last 21 months or so, whether because they can or they no longer feel the need to keep them

Purge piles of items to keep, donate, discard

Energy Efficiency

Sustainable Building by the Numbers

How building “green” can save builders money

Builders

Solutions to Housing Affordability

A crisis point or a time for quick adaptation? Here's what our readers have to say about providing affordable housing

Electrical

Low-Cost Fire Protection For New Home Building/Remodeling

AFCIs provide affordable fire protection by instantly de-energizing arc faults that standard circuit breakers cannot

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Housewrap

Philadelphia-Area Custom Homebuilder Chooses TYPAR for Durability, Performance

When the team at DeLuca Construction needed a high-performance house wrap for a 7,500-sqaure-foot home in Philadelphia’s upscale Chestnut Hill neighborhood, they turned to the TYPAR Weather Protection System.

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The Role of Building Wrap in Managing Moisture

Making sure your building wrap manages moisture is key in keeping your building safe.

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How to Install a Smart Lock

As homeowners become increasingly well-versed in smart home technologies, they’re opting for connected solutions when it comes to one of the...

Project Management

5 Ways to Upgrade Project Management Practices for 2022

Project management for construction in 2022 will require streamlining workflows and working smarter not harder

Doodles of project management flow chart

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Home Technology

Independent Living and Aging in Place: Is Smart Home Technology the Key?

Technology is an ever-evolving solution to many of the problems we're facing, and senior interest in smart devices is a trend that has recently picked up momentum

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Products

The Best Way to Install Housewrap

When installing house or building wrap, builders should follow these four easy steps to ensure optimal protection from the elements

Opinion

A Career in Construction? The Future of Traditional Skilled Labor

Refilling the skilled construction labor pool requires a rethink about how we treat workers

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Products

Surfactants and Their Impact on Building Wrap Performance

When choosing a building wrap, builders need to pay attention to the material’s surfactant resistance capabilities. Not all wraps will provide the same surfactant protection—if any at all

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Remodeling

Surge in Home Remodeling: Lighting Trend Forecast

As homeowners continue to upgrade their current homes, there are a few trends we predict are here to stay, such as upgrading electrical devices for efficiency, creating a whole smart home, and customizing colors to align with design preferences

Point of View

Must-Have Appliances for Any Modern Farmhouse Kitchen

Propane offers a clean, high-performance home energy solution

Opinion

Builders Should Use Their Influence to Get More Construction Workers Vaccinated

Because builders play a role as influencers in the construction industry, they should be promoting the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine to their employees and subcontractor network

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3 Overlooked Factors When Specifying Smart Lighting

With many variables to consider while selecting smart lighting controls, some such as compatibility and usability for the end user get overlooked. This is because their impacts are felt after a homeowner has interacted with the devices for some time.

Leviton's Decora Smart Wi-Fi product family offers the flexibility to fit a buyer's preferences now and as they grow into their home.

Business Management

Find a Rock and Focus on It

Having a vision you can trust, and keeping your sights set on it, is key to overcoming obstacles in your business

Building Technology

Construction’s New Normal After the Pandemic

8 areas and functions that are ripe for building with technology after the pandemic

New normal, paper airplanes diverging paths

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Products

3 Ways the Pandemic Is Changing Smart Homes

Smart homes gained increased popularity as consumers stayed at home during the pandemic, but the need for automation seems to be here to stay

Leviton's Decora Smart Wi-Fi product family

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Products

Building the Case for Flexible Smart Home Technology

With smart home technology now being the new normal, builders should focus on flexibility to appeal to today’s buyers – millennials.

Human Resources

This Problem Has Construction Owners in a Bind—Is There a Fix?

Self-reported timecards are notoriously inaccurate for several reasons. There is a better way to achieve transparency and accuracy

Time card being filled out with worker hours

Plumbing Fixtures + Fittings

Handling the Pressure: The Effect of Plumbing Material Selection on Homeowner Satisfaction

Plumbing systems can affect a home’s water quality in a variety of ways, including permeation, leaching and biofilm formation.

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

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

Renters Are Choosing Single-Family Homes for These Features