Uber-Giants: The 400 largest builders outmuscle an economic slowdown while claiming a larger share of housing’s pie.

Civano, an 818-acre, mixed-used community in arid Tucson, Ariz., is living up to its initial billing as one of the most resource-efficient housing developments ever built.

There is in the residential construction industry today a lot of information, a lot of competing voices predicting very different futures for home builders, and the combined din is causing a lot of confusion.

Florida home builders would have been subject to penalties of as much as $1,000 a day for missing promised delivery dates on new homes under a bill recently introduced by state Sen. Betty Holzendorf, a Jacksonville Democrat.

The most frequently neglected aspect in model home merchandising is the one new home shoppers see first — the great outdoors surrounding the new home.

Platitudes, vision statements, mission statements, posters, speeches and value statements are meaningless unless action is in place to create trust between employee and employer.

A new entry on PB’s GIANTS list, this Marietta, Ga.-based apartment builder checks in at No. 58 after beginning operations in 1998 as a spinoff from Trammell Crow Residential, the apartment building behemoth.

The Bush administration’s fiscal 2003 budget proposal includes an innovative homeownership tax credit program that would help achieve two national objectives.

Town & Country Developers Inc. of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., and its affiliated companies have made headlines by converting brownfields — dormant industrial and commercial sites — into residential communities.