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Wood University Attend Online
Wood University, the free online education portal of the APA-The Engineered Wood Association, now offers a course on building structurally sound wood-framed structures. WU 201: Design of Wood Connections is broken down into four successive/progressive/co
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Reinventing Tradition
Accustomed to building a handful of homes each year topping out at about $350,000, David DeBord was ready for a new challenge that would become his first New Urbanist outing, his first plan drawn by an architect rather than a designer and his first attem
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Steeling Home
Many a builder has faced the quandary of building homes with steel, which can be costly but more consistent or building with wood, which can warp and be labor intensive. One company has brought an innovative solution to the marketplace. FrameMax, a compa
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How to Win the War for Talent
While many homebuilding executives cite entitled land as their greatest long-term barrier to growth, their number one short-term constraint is talent. At all staffing levels, be it a new trainee, mid-level manager or senior executive, builders are fighti
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2004 Housing GIANTS Rising Tide
If you're searching for melancholy, look up one of the Giant 400 home builders who sold his company two or three years ago. Unquestionably, he'll tell you he had reason to believe the market was at its peak — the very best time to cash out.
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Fun with designing a door
Architectural Traditions — designers and manufacturers of crafted doors, windows and hardware — created a program on its website where builders and consumers alike can design doors specific to the house being built. Visitors to the site first
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Running for Long-Term Success
In 1950, Bill Pulte built his first five-room home in Detroit and sold it for $10,000. Six years later, William J. Pulte, Inc. was formed. Now known as Pulte Homes, Inc., the company has grown to become the nation's largest home builder operating in
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Desert Beauty
West of the Agua Fria River, in part of Phoenix's West Valley, Vistancia stands quietly, respecting the land and natural history of the desert around it. In Terracina, a gated T.W. Lewis community, and one of the 11 neighborhoods in Vistancia, lies T
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Top 10 Things to Ask in Interviews
The Sharrow Group, a Rochester, N.Y.-based executive search firm specializing in the housing industry, has created a quick checklist of questions a builder should ask prospective management hires during interviews:
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The Job Offer
The Job Offer Letter. In its simplest sense, the template for a job offer letter might be fairly generic. Hitting the right hot buttons for a job offer letter requires some thought and preparation. The same process that goes into composing a job offer le
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