When passion and necessity collide the result can be potent.

Unlike quality awards concerned only with the finished product, the National Housing Quality Award examines the builder’s business and quality management practices.

For more than three decades, California home builders have battled their state’s peculiar application of strict product liability laws to housing construction.

It almost sounds too simple--just curve the streets instead of setting them in a grid or cul-de-sac pattern.

The 2000 forecase for the housing industry should look something like this: overall, mostly sunny with clean conditions expected across the country with the presence of a stationary high front that extends from the nation's capital.

The Portland city government’s official position is their new base zone design standards are a response to past construction standards that have negatively impacted the livability and safety of surrounding neighborhoods

Having basically grown up in the building industry (his father Art is a prominent national builder, now retired), Barry Rutenberg seems to view all builders as his extended family.

This past November, the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio ruled that Centex Homes cannot enforce the protion of its contracts requiring buyers to waive the guarantee that their new homes are 'habitable' and made with 'good and workmanlike construc..

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