The first principle of conservation in real estate development is the protection of land.
Two insulation firms -- Collins & Co. of Vernon, Conn., and Comfort Insulation of Bend, Ore. -- have been named National Certified Contractor Firms of the Year.
The human condition is an interesting one. For mere survival, our needs are few: food, water and shelter. It doesn’t take much more than that to sustain a body.
Long before anyone coined the phrase 'green building,' there was one Colorado builder who adopted these modern-day ideals.
A builder would probably not be surprised if a development priced more than $100,000 below the median average sold briskly - especially in Huntington Beach, Calif.
DeLuca Enterprises and Berwind Property Group acquired Realen Homes, based in Ambler, Pa., in June for an undisclosed amount.
Initially, home builders thought participants in the Health House effort for better indoor quality were crazy radicals, remembers Dianne Walsh Astry, one of the folks taking the brunt of that early negative reaction.
The most remarkable aspect of Dewees Island is the way developer John Knott sells greenness, and how well that sales pitch works.
Clayton Preston, Robert Reed and Greg Ramsey, the principals of Village Habitat Design in Atlanta
