This year's newest members have forged long and successful careers focusing on one project at a time.
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Affordable housing community
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Whole-house makeover or significant addition
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Custom home, less than 3,500 square feet
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2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Single-family detached community
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2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Custom home, 3,500 to 6,000 square feet
2009 Builder's Choice, Special Focus Award, Detail
2009 Builder's Choice, Special Focus Award, Bath
2009 Builder's Choice, Special Focus Award, Outbuilding
2009 Builder's Choice, Special Focus Award, Kitchen
2009 Builder's Choice, Special Focus Award, Outbuilding
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Whole-house makeover or significant addition
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Affordable housing
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Apartments, rental
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Condos, for sale
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Affordable housing project
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Senior housing
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Custom home, 3,500 to 6,000 square feet
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Live/Work project
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Custom home, 3,500 to 6,000 square feet
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Adaptive re-use project
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Infill project
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Custom home, less than 3,500 square feet
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2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Condos, for sale
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Whole-house makeover or significant addition
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Resort or second-home community
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Green/Sustainable project
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Townhouse unit, less than 2,000 square feet
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Custom home, 6,000 square feet or more
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Green/Sustainable home
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Whole-house makeover or significant addition
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Live/Work project
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Custom home, 3,500 to 6,000 square feet
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Adaptive re-use project
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Affordable housing project; Green/Sustainable community
2009 Builder's Choice, Project of the Year and Grand Award, Infill project
Small, green, efficient and resourceful projects reflect an industry on the road to recovery.
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The same law extending the housing tax credit includes provisions that sweeten carrybacks from net operating losses.
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House approves extension by vote of 402-12; buyers now have until June 30, 2010 to close on a home.
When culinary zones are designed with a practical recipe and a dash of style, hanging out at home beats going out to eat.
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Consumers would rather refurbish kitchens and bathrooms than upgrade their HVAC or buy new windows.
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You've seen the top 20; now take a look at the remaining rankings in the new Builder Market Health Index Fall update of the top 100 home building markets.
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Quarterly financial results from BMHC, Weyerhaeuser, Huttig, Builders FirstSource, Owens Corning, Potlatch, Plum Creek, Rayonier, and Masco.
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Residential construction grows 3.9%; pending home sales move up 6.1%.
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Newport Beach-based builder, founded by three former William Lyon Homes execs, already has two fee-for-construction projects in the works.
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Only three cities—Charlotte, Cleveland, and Las Vegas—showed drops in home values.
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Former Drees Homes employee Anne Mitchell developed the curriculum, which highlights the math, science, and other skills required by builders, architects, and subcontractors.
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A new report finds residents optimistic about a rebound in Center City.
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Economists at semiannual NAHB conference discuss home prices, jobs, mortgage rates, and the federal tax credit.
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Index gives back July gains with a 0.3% drop at summer’s end.
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State and local governments are doing what their depleted budgets will allow to revive construction.
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Enterprise Community Partners commits $4 billion to affordable green building and releases study that quantifies ROI of sustainably built homes.
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The Utah-based builder’s reorganization plan would turn over the company’s assets and management to creditors whose claims exceed $940 million.
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The school took a more “round-about” approach to designing its Solar Decathlon 2009 house.
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Single-family starts rise 3.9% on a monthly basis.
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Scientists at MIT experiment with a chameleon-like black and white roofing material that could take green to a new level.
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Regis Homes is averaging at least one sale per week in each of its four active communities.
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The school took a more “round-about” approach to designing its Solar Decathlon 2009 house.
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Are smaller homes a permanent trend?
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Ellen Dunham-Jones urges builders, planners, and developers to look for patches of 'underperforming asphalt' to accommodate future growth in a sustainable way.
Generations of builders say the advice of the legendary business consultant, now 92 years old, has proved invaluable over the years.
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Leonard Arave says he’ll leave the builder, regardless of election's outcome, once it emerges from Chapter 11, which could be next month.
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The school’s Solar Decathlon 2009 house integrates design with technology in one seamless process.
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Details about incentives to servicers and troubled homeowners to accept short sales are expected soon.
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Company discloses inquiry in late Friday quarterly filing.
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Public builder picks up lots from now-defunct C.P. Morgan and is marketing homes in 10 neighborhoods.
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Team Boston’s Solar Decathlon 2009 house aims to prove that good design can save energy and money.
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Virginia Tech uses sliding glass walls to expand the living space of its Solar Decathlon 2009 house.
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Maryland builder says first-time tax credit was like “oxygen” to the struggling industry this year.
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Starwood Capital and other investors now control properties that include 12,000 condo units.
The new and improved BUILDER Market Health Index, compiled by Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, now accounts for a market's median income growth.
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A soft economy isn’t the only thing that’s giving local officials and citizens pause about this project.
This space, a linchpin in a home’s overall energy efficiency, is typically under-insulated and poorly sealed, according to experts.
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The company that killed anthrax in government buildings says the same solution fixes caustic Chinese drywall.
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Single-family construction moves upward 4.5% while pending home-sale index also rises 6.4%.
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A showroom in downtown Naperville will be focal feature of merger between Charleston Development Group and Casa Bella Design Kitchen and Bath Remodelers.
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Builders aren’t the only ones looking to unload spec projects at reduced prices. At this real estate branding firm, ad campaigns for the housing business are available at a discount--or for free.
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Government agencies will help Louisville, Ky.; Montgomery County, Md.; Las Cruces, N.M.; and California create more sustainable land-use and transportation patterns.
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Eighteen of 20 metros showed gains; only Seattle and Las Vegas posted a monthly decline.
Sponsored by Builder and Hearthstone, the award honors builders who have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to public service.
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Kevork S. Hovnanian started New Jersey builder in 1959.
Some builders say the seemingly moribund market just keeps fighting back.
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Zillow survey estimates that extending the $8,000 tax credit would attract 334,000 extra buyers.