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Tradesperson installing a standard door frame throughout several production homes improves productivity

Business Management

How to Improve Home Building Productivity, Part 1

Simplifying and standardizing your processes and purchasing creates efficiencies that save money and time and attract the best trade partners

Lean Building

How to Optimize Your Plan Portfolio and Gain an Edge on the Competition, Part 1

To stay ahead of the competition, simply value engineering your homes is not enough. Adopt a performance-based mindset

Value-engineered home exterior with minimalist styling on the facade

Market Data + Trends

Home Exteriors See Value Engineering by Home Builders

To contend with current cost pressures, home builders are taking steps to value engineer the exteriors of their homes

Lean design involves advanced framing to save lumber in home building

Lean Building

3 Ways Lean Design Can Help Home Builders Recover Margins

Using a Lean design and construction approach, home builders can reduce waste and costs without sacrificing amenities or marketability of their produc

Business Management

Reducing 3 Types of Construction Waste to Increase Home Builder Profit

Waste in home building is a much broader term than most home builders think. Here’s how builders can take stock of all forms of waste throughout the construction process to achieve greater profitability

Business Management

Commodity Purchasing? There’s No Such Thing

Do you know all of the elements of the true total cost and total benefit for all of the products you put in your homes?

Business Management

Lean Construction’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

Lean building is never about dumbing down houses and making them hard to sell; it’s about adding value

Construction waste in jobsite dumpster in front of a new single-family home is not Lean construction

Building Materials

Reduce Lumber Use With a Lean Strategy

On this episode of The Weekly, TrueNorth Development President Scott Sedam lays out a six-week process for builders to significantly cut...

Off-Site Construction

Precut Framing Field Test: Does This Off-Site Solution Earn Its Keep?

Real-world field assessments aim to find out whether precut framing is an off-site construction solution that truly boosts productivity and reduces waste

Ready-Frame package on the jobsite reduces framing time and lumber waste

Building Materials

Decrease Lumber Use With High-Performance Building Strategies

As softwood lumber prices reach new heights, home builders may want to consider high-performance building strategies to use less lumber,...

Lean Building

Home Builders, Stop the Waste!

Attention home builders ... This is the one New Year’s resolution that will guarantee you results: Get serious about waste reduction

Off-Site Construction

On-Site vs. Off-Site Part 2: a Deeper Dive

Closer analysis of total cost leads to the ultimate concept of “total value” in home building

A deeper dive into off-site construction

Business Management

On-Site vs. Off-Site: a Total Cost Analysis for Home Builders

Most builders and component suppliers do a marginal job of calculating true, fully loaded, total cost when comparing various methods. It’s time to remedy that

Business Management

How to Save Serious Money With Progressive Value Engineering

See how Loudermilk Homes is saving thousands of dollars on every home it builds

Progressive Value Engineering approach by Loudermilk Homes

How to Improve Home Building Productivity, Part 1

How to Optimize Your Plan Portfolio and Gain an Edge on the Competition, Part 1

Home Exteriors See Value Engineering by Home Builders

3 Ways Lean Design Can Help Home Builders Recover Margins

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

Renters Are Choosing Single-Family Homes for These Features