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The National Green Building Standard is working toward ANSI approval.
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The construction industry loses more jobs, New Jersey changes its approach to affordable housing, and Florida joins the list of states suing Countrywide.
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Scientists say buildings can survive such storms if structures are well-built.
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Boomers Plan to Stay in Current Homes
AARP survey finds 29 percent of baby boomers have made changes to homes so they can live there longer.
The debate over mandating sprinkler installation in new homes heats up.
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News Flash: The sun is hot. there's renewed and widespread attention being paid to it as a legitimate home energy source—and this time that interest might stick. A perfect storm of factors has come together to keep solar solutions on the front burner, including record crude oil prices, federal tax...
The housing industry has finally reached the point where many home builders feel that the software products available can meet their business needs, but the ongoing downturn has put a damper on information technology (IT) spending.
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Builders, architects, urban planners, and sustainability experts held a design charrette on Oct. 24 to come up with floor plans, construction processes, and product suggestions for Concept House Charleston in South Carolina, the second PATH Concept Home and the first in the Southeastern U.S.
Show houses are a great way for builders and manufacturers to showcase the latest and greatest in products, materials, construction techniques, and design. This month, the first-ever show house for mold prevention opened its doors in Chesterfield, N.H.
My town has recently started allowing plastic waste-pipe instead of cast iron in residential construction, and a lot of my competitors are making the switch. What are the big differences between the two kinds of pipe?
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HUD IS HOPING THAT THE ENERGY-efficient concept home it built in Omaha, Neb., will be a blueprint for the future of American housing.
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After deflecting rumors for months, Miami, Fla.,-based Lennar Corp. let the cat out of the bag in June when officials at its western headquarters leaked some details about new construction techniques the builder has been testing at the former air base in El Toro, Calif. Lennar is developing the...
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MOLD-RESISTANT GYPSUM and concrete made with waste from coal-fired power plants are among the top 10 home building technologies for 2007, according to the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH). PATH, a program run by HUD, says the 10 technologies are the future of home building and...
Home building is in the blood of this year’s winning builders, and it shows in their products and companies.
During the rise of the internet era in the late 1990s, while the automotive, aerospace, and most other industries moved forward with B2B e-commerce, BuildNet, the building industry's e-commerce play, failed miserably. The result was that home building lagged far behind most other industries in this...
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Despite the housing slowdown, size, features, and high-end products in the bath (and the kitchen) are still important to consumers, reports the American Institute of Architects. This means that you can't skimp on the swank.
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TECH PIONEERS AND VISIONARIES sometimes talk like the digital home will happen overnight. The reality is that the home-technology industry is making only gradual progress in winning over home builders, home buyers, and other consumers.
INDUCTION COOKTOPS—WHICH USE A magnetic field to generate heat—were introduced to the American market nearly 20 years ago. Popular in Europe, where natural gas is generally expensive, induction technology has been unsuccessful in this country because of its low power and unreliability.
These have been heady months for the Z-Wave Alliance.
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If you aren't actively selling digital technology, you're leaving some serious money on the table.