Manufacturers + Suppliers

Operations

Ways Home Builders Can Manage Material Availability Risk

As global and domestic supply chains are affected by the pandemic, home builders can take steps to help minimize builder risk and improve operations

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Purchasing

Are You Getting a Good Deal on Your Purchasing?

A little due diligence and a total-cost mindset go a long way toward helping you make more cost-effective purchasing decisions

Environmental

Concrete Industry Reduces Carbon Footprint by 13% Over Five Years

National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) members have lowered their carbon footprint by 13% in five years, according to an...

Labor + Trade Relations

Process and Product Issues Guarantee One Thing: Job Security for Trades

Home builders should ask themselves: Am I helping or hindering the profitability of my trades and suppliers? Your answer will determine your own financial success

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Green Projects

A Conversation With Whirlpool: Embracing Sustainability

Ron Voglewede, Global Sustainability Director at Whirlpool Corporation, explains the company’s decades-long commitment to sustainability and how the demand for sustainable living has evolved.

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Business Management

Supplier Survival: Adopt a Highly Differentiating Approach

Suppliers can inspire home builders to think beyond ‘first cost’ to total cost (and even total value). Here's how | Part 2 in a two-part series

Business Management

Survival on the Supply Side—Overcoming the Tyranny of Price Competition

Can suppliers help builders grow beyond their low-bid tactics? Part 1 in a two-part series

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Economics

Home Building Retreats While Manufacturing Struggles

U.S. homebuilding tumbled from more than a 12-year high in September, but single-family home construction rose for a fourth straight month,...

Manufacturers + Suppliers

Now Is a Good Time to Review and Refresh Your Materials Supply Chain

Use this guide to identifying and prequalifying suppliers to reinvigorate and stabilize your supply chain

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Building Materials

Supply Chain Relationships: What's Working and What's Not [Research]

Here’s what builders and building products suppliers say about their construction products supply chain relationships

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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