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Personal accountability for results. Without it, there can be great strategies, great people and great operations but no reliable means of execution.

Subscribers to the new eCodes Online service from the International Code Council can download information from more than 13 building codes to their computer.

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The National Tour of Solar Homes was held October 16, 1999 in 36 states from Alabama to Wisconsin.

At the end of the day, way too many of you are sneaking out the construction entrance with your lights off when you should be cruising slowly down the street you built, waving at everyone and asking that recent close on lot 137 how her youngest daughte..

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Asking customers if they have actually recommended their builder is an important innovation in the NRS research.