Every year America’s residential and commercial builders combined take on 136 million tons of waste, according to the EPA.

You're a builder. You build homes. Writers write, actors act, ministers minister and, as some say, doctors doctor. It's just what you do.

For those builders whose size prevents them from even having a full office staff, the thought of having an information technology (IT) group is out of the question.

Much has been written of the Internet and its impact on the residential construction industry. There are a lot more predications than hard information, but a recent survey by NAHB gives one of the first statistical looks at how new home builders are us..

GIANTS Tim Eller, president and CEO of Centex Homes, and Chad Dryer, president and CEO of The Ryland Group were part of a recent panel that examined issues facing the home building industry. Their comments on the issues facing builders today and tomorr..

In a startling revision to previously-published figures, the Commerce Department in late July released estimates showing that home improvement and repair rose between 1998 and 1999, after preliminary estimates had shown a substantial decline during the..

July 2000 total housing starts were at a seasonally-adjusted annualized level of 1.512 million units, down 3.3% from the June total and 11.3% lower than during July of 1999.

Although the Federal Reserve Board has tried to slow the fastcharging U.S. economy by raising short-term interest rates by almost two percentage points over the past year, there's been little apparent loss of long-term growth momentum.

In 1998 only about 38,000 new homes had some type of structured wiring. That number more than doubled to 90,000 new homes in 1999, and this year the figure is predicted to reach 200,000 outfitted with structured wiring.