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Business Management

3 Ways to Maintain Culture While Managing Growth

Your people are vital to your organization. After all, they are the ones helping to make the growth happen, so if they aren’t motivated and engaged, then rapid growth can become more of a stressor than a cause for celebration

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New-Construction Projects

Weathering the Storm | BASF

Standing against superstorms and hurricanes by standing together for resilience

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Sub-floor Best Practices

Best Practices for Storing and Handling OSB

OSB sub-flooring products have a long track record of success. Premium products such as LP Legacy® offer builders even greater moisture...

Business Management

Trumark's New Model for Home Building

Trumark Companies—named Pro Builder's 2018 Builder of the Year—represents a new, diversified model for home building

Trumark's Gregg Nelson (left) and Mike Maples met at business school and initially started entitling and selling lots together. (Photo: Jason Henry / dbphotoagency.com)

Opinion

Killing Home Building's Sacred Cows

The willingness to innovate and forge a new path requires a fundamental shift in mindset

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Sub-floor Best Practices

How to Meet—and Exceed—Customer Expectations By Designing Floors as Systems

You may think of engineered wood products individually—the OSB, the I-Joists, the LVL—but unlike categories such as faucets or light...

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Sales + Marketing

7 Ways to Promote Upgrades to Floor and Wall Systems

High-performance framing systems offer homeowners a lot of benefits—but you have to make sure they understand them.

High-performance framing systems, such as LP Legacy, offer homeowners a lot of benefits that they may not be aware of. It is your job to educate them.

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How Three Contractors Expanded Thin Profit Margins

If there’s one issue that every contractor is familiar with, it’s the challenge of finishing the job on time and on budget.

American Express: Three Contractors blog

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Financing

Three Ways Construction Leaders Harness Digital Transformation

The construction industry is lagging behind others when it comes to digital transformation. Some construction firms “are still using paper-based processes that can only be described as archaic,” according to a 2016 report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s Strategy1, according to American Express

American Express image of construction worker on mobile device

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Financing

How Seasoned Construction Pros Handle the Cost of Scaling Up

American Express talks profit margins in this sponsored blog post

Builders putting up house frame, Photo: AMEX

Business Management

Getting On Board With Onboarding

In the November issue of Pro Builder, we take a look at builders' best practices for onboarding trades, and the magazine has its own onboarding to do: Welcome editor-in-chief Rich Binsacca

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Opinion

Your Voice: Engaging the Home Builder Audience

At Professional Builder, we aim to create a digital dialogue between us and among all our readers, big and small; urban, suburban, and rural; high-priced and affordable

Business Management

5 Smart Business Tactics for Growing Your Building Firm

Developing honest and respectful relationships with clients is key for transforming visions into reality

These brigh ideas will help grow your building company

Opinion

Urban Placemaking

Small-scale manufacturers are helping move hard-to-sell retail space, and they’re bringing jobs back

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Flawless Hardwood Flooring Installation Starts From Underneath

Want to ensure your hardwood flooring stands the test of time? Consider these installation best practices for your sub-floor.

Quality Management

Frequently Asked Questions About Applying for the National Housing Quality Awards

Information, statistics, and FAQs on applying for the National Housing Quality Award.

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Sub-floor Best Practices

Improving Floor Performance With a System Approach

Considering all elements of the floor and how they work together can allow for predictable performance and happier homeowners.

Using a premium sub-floor such as LP Legacy® as part of a well-planned system can help builders meet buyer expectations for floor performance.

Opinion

Chuck Shinn's Lasting Industry Influence

Although Chuck Shinn is retiring, his influence on thousands of home building professionals continues

Chuck Shinn retiring_Shinn's work for the construction industry_Classic cubes background illustration_CC0 public domain

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Structural

Putting It to the Test: New OSB Technology Faces Extreme Testing

To truly test out its new premium sub-floor, LP set up extreme conditions in the depths of the rainforest and recruited extreme athletes for the job.

Business Management

A Possible Solution for the Skilled Trade Shortage

Japan’s Womenomics approach to easing the workforce decline has energized its construction industry

Woman on construction jobsite shows that women can have roles in the skilled trades

Home Technology

Safety and Ethics of Smart Home Technology

An increase in calls linked to domestic abuse via smart home technology highlights the need for consumer and manufacturer awareness

smart home control using smart phone_Flickr user Andrew W. Rennie 2010

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Structural

9 Common Subfloor Installation Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

From tight spacing to improper fasteners, simple errors can lead to callbacks. Here’s a best-practice refresher for subfloor installation

Building Operations

Flow Charts for Precise and On-Target Workflow

No matter what size builder you are, mapping the construction process translates to best results and happy customers

Green Projects

California's Countdown to Zero Net Energy

The Golden State is 18 months away from its net-zero deadline. Are builders ready?

Opinion

How to Avoid Monotony in Production Homes

Beware: Many of today’s buyers can spot cookie-cutter homes faster than you can say “1950s Levittown”

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