Building Science Guest Column: Understanding Propane's Potential for Efficiency Homeowner and homebuyer priorities are shifting. Today, more residential customers are seeking high-performance homes with lower energy...
Market Insights NEW PRODUCTS AND INSIGHTS: April Keeping up with all the new residential building products hitting the market as well as all the changes happening around the industry is a...
Market Insights Staying Ahead of Trends and Handling Conflicting Visions in Custom Home Design In this segment In Business, a video series from Custom Builder that provides a platform for custom home design, architecture, and building...
Building Science Bridging the IAQ Knowledge Gap Indoor air quality, to some degree or another, has been a concern since at least the 1960s, when the term "sick building syndrome" began...
Market Insights How Paint Trends Inform Economics The March jobs report on Friday showed a resilient economy and moderate inflation. While some economists and politicians have spent months...
Market Insights Safe Piping Matters Offers Free Educational Webinar DECATUR, Ga — Safe Piping Matters announces the release of a one-hour webinar, “Material Considerations for Plumbing Systems.” The course is...
Building Science An Introduction to the Zero Energy Ready Home Program The nation’s most rigorous federal label for new homes has set its sights even higher. Late in 2022, the US Department of Energy's (DOE’s)...
Market Insights What Chat GPT Means for Building Product Brands By now, just about everybody’s heard about ChatGPT. If you haven’t, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial...
Market Insights The Top 10 Tile Trends of 2023 In anticipation of this year’s Coverings, North America’s largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference, Ceramics of Italy,...
Market Insights After Four Months of Declines, Building Materials Prices Rose Gradually in January After falling for four consecutive months, the producer price index (PPI) for building materials fell 0.9% in January 2023 (not seasonally...
