What products would help make the ultimate family home? This is a showcase of products from BUILDER MAGAZINE that will knock your socks off!
The Ultimate Family Home could not have been built without the support of its many sponsors, a select group of building product manufacturers and suppliers that have contributed to this effort. A list of companies, their levels of sponsorship, and the products they provided follows.
What products would help make the ultimate family home? This is part II of BUILDER MAGAZINE'S showcase of products that will knock your socks off!
BUILDER'S 2004 show home demonstrates how families really want to live.
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New software helps builders manage Internet sales leads more effectively.
The wireless world that technology experts have predicted for years is finally emerging. So where do builders fit into all this technology growth? The short answer: Most don't ... yet. We looked at three projects that offer wireless networks to new-home owners.
Most architectural CAD software is geared toward producing 2-D construction documents first, with 3-D or rendering capability thrown in as icing on the cake. In contrast, Chief Architect, from Advanced Relational Technology (ART), is all about quick 3-D visualization and presentation, with 2-D CAD...
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Arvida inks a deal with Bose and Philips to market home entertainment in two large projects in Florida.
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A survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche of 350 senior executives in the real estate and construction industry found that nearly 50 percent report an increase in construction-related disputes over the past few years, but that Web-based tools that are marketed as a way to avoid disputes are effective...
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Honeywell has acquired structured wiring vendor FutureSmart Systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and no regulatory approvals were required. David Gottlieb, a Honeywell spokesperson, says FutureSmart will operate at its headquarters in Draper, Utah, as part of Honeywell's Security Products...
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Etails, the handheld application from Atlanta-based GlobalSoft that bills itself as an electronic paper trail, touts two new features in its 3.0 version. First, 3.0 has a handwriting capability. Builders can use a stylus both as a sketching tool and to sign off on change orders.
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Builders now have a much more affordable option thanks to Intuit, which is promoting a series of new communications features in Master Builder 2004 that help builders integrate their scheduling, estimating, job costing, purchasing, and accounting operations. Master Builder, used by some 6,500...
Hip, chic, and trendy are great for clothes and cars. But when your product is designed to last for generations, you tend to be a little skeptical about what's hot and what's not. To find out what design elements are resonating with today's buyers, Builder interviewed production, semi-custom, and...
With factories running 24 hours a day to meet demand, makers of plastic-based building materials such as decking, fencing, and siding are moving into the mainstream at warp speed. Are these products the answer to our durability woes, or merely a fresh face shaking up an old business?
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Although all of the lots in this community were plotted at 45 feet wide, the builder narrowed some of them and made others wider to achieve a lower sales price per square foot.
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Small-lot configurations have been around for many years, but today builders are using them more often. The challenge is not so much finding buyers who are willing to live on less land; plenty of people like the low-maintenance lifestyle it offers or are happy to sacrifice lot size for location...
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Economists and builders expect the sun to shine on housing in 2004 and beyond.
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A study prescribes specific and proven methods that deliver superior customer service and achieve extraordinary levels of buyer satisfaction.
The result is WCI, a vertically integrated public home builder with a business model unlike others in the industry. Known for its luxury high-rise towers (where units sell for an average of $1 million and up), WCI also operates a traditional home building division, real estate services, and an...
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The first time Lee Wetherington started a building-related business he failed miserably. Despite growing up with a father in the industry, the young man somehow put the wrong numbers together for his new drywall and painting business, and, in his own words, "got in trouble."
Winning builders show that success in housing comes from more than just home construction.
The relentless push by big builders, combined with a regulatory minefield, has forced small builders to skirmish over every scrap of available land.
If some builders and sales professionals view The New American Home 2004 as a tough sell to the mainstream, they're probably right. But for a narrow niche of mature, affluent, and sophisticated couples in Las Vegas (or any major market), Borsanyi and the design/build team are convinced that demand...
The mirror-image, lower-level suites offer the owners myriad possibilities, from guest bedrooms to a game room, home office, yoga room/gym, or art studio. Photo: James F. WilsonA basement offers the perfect setting for a home wine cellar, providing the stability, climate control, and other...
Consistent with the loft concept in its layout and space efficiency, this first home's galley kitchen offers accessibility and openness to other rooms and the outdoors while also offering lessons in space planning and storage applicable to any housing type. In the second home, Interior...
BUILDER and the NAHB bring the urban loft to the cul-de-sac with a contemporary, eminently flexible house for affluent buyers and their ever-changing lifestyle needs.
Two awards programs offer companies the chance to improve their business practices.
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Ever since the stock market began to unravel back in 2000, theories of unsustainable bubbles in house prices have littered the financial print and broadcast media. But house prices continued to rise at a healthy pace in virtually all parts of the country through the recession of 2001, as well as...
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The NAHB scored some significant successes in 2003 in a productive and exciting year.
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- During this year's IBS more than 1,400 exhibitors occupied the equivalent of 40 football fields; the net square footage of exhibits is expected to top 800,000 square feet.
- According to the 2003 NAHB Builder Survey, many of today's new homes offer aging-in-place features.
- The NAHB commends...
Get a glimpse of the hottest products at IBS 2004.
A condo project creates an off-site model home that helps boost presales.
The Web site for The Promenade Rio Vista in San Diego replicates the vitality of urban living.
Atlanta's sweeping BridgeMill community entices new buyers and honors existing residents with a colorful guide to its lifestyle events.
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These market researchers say builders haven't yet supplied what aging boomers, whom they call 'nexers,' really want.
The community boasts 144 acres of open space and wetlands, parks, playgrounds, soccer fields, walking trails, a bridle path, and a community pavilion.
Thanks to its excellent location and strong demand, base prices increase by $3,000 to $4,000 at each release.
The no-upkeep lots are attractive to empty-nesters and active adults.
The eclectic architecture of the neighborhood, built in the 1900s to 1930s, allowed the builder to offer four historic styles--Mission Revival, Queen Anne, Spanish Colonial, and Bungalow.
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HUD and Freddie Mac each announce new leadership.
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A maverick management consultant suggests that by simulating a company turnaround when times are good, you can create unexpected profit centers.
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How can I achieve a neotraditional look without utilizing alleys?
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Q. How can I achieve a neotraditional look without utilizing alleys?
This cavalier trio threatens to give the home building industry a taste of their steel.
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Millions of old homes may contain asbestos-laced insulation. Discovering it too late can spell disaster for both you and your clients.
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A high-stakes legal stalemate has created new health and liability risks for remodelers and infill builders who depend on teardowns to acquire lots.
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Fortune Brands buys Therma-Tru for $925 million.
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How did the nation get into this affordable housing mess?
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Abandoned shipping containers get new life as live/work housing units.
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The latest industry issues survey suggests that insurance woes reach from sea to shining sea.
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Manufacturers eye virtual showrooms for home buyers and builders.
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Foundation earmarks $50 million to preserve affordable apartments.
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Over the past year, the Consortium for Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB), part of the DOE's Building America Program, teamed up with Steven Winter Associates, a Norwalk, Conn.-based consulting firm, to look at moisture movement inside insulating wall systems, as well as water buildup on the...
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Bayport, Minn.-based Andersen Windows says its new Web-based tool will help builders easily find windows and doors that satisfy building code requirements in coastal areas.
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Most Web site intros are flashy song-and-dance numbers that slow down access and frustrate browsers. That's definitely not the case with John Laing Homes' charming introduction, which features simple line drawings of homelike scenes--a cat and a dog curled up in front of a fire, for example--and a...
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Construction quality gets scrutinized by the consumer press. To its credit, the Consumer Reports article recommends that home buyers give builders a chance to fix problems, though it stops short of backing right-to-repair laws.
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Builders spent $1 million in some local elections last November, backed it up with organizational know-how, and produced some significant wins.
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Money Talks!
Builders spent $1 million in some local elections last November, backed it up with organizational know-how, and produced some significant wins.
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Economy.com recently reported that households earning the regional median income cannot afford a median-priced home in 34 of the nation's metropolitan areas.
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In July, the state of Florida will begin requiring all independent contractors who work in construction to incorporate--or lose their workers' comp exemption.
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The EPA awarded a total of $400,000 in grants to five communities to integrate smart-growth concepts into their local redevelopment efforts.
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The National Insurance Crime Bureau and the Associated General Contractors of America estimate that theft and vandalism at construction sites total $1 billion every year.
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In Durham, N.C., city officials have passed a new-housing impact policy intended to limit the number of new, subsidized units built in poorer areas of the city.
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Times couldn't be better for Village Homes.
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The Blackout of 2003 and Hurricane Isabel's wrath have homeowners looking to get gas-powered generators installed in their new homes.
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A recent study by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce found that 50 percent of students graduating college typically leave the state. One of the biggest reasons: They can't afford housing.
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Big builder D.R. Horton expects to get even bigger. The Arlington, Texas- based company currently operates in 20 states and 47 markets, but in 2004, it wants to expand to Baltimore; Tampa, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; Bend, Ore.; and McAllen, Texas.
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Hovnanian Enterprises just keeps growing its portfolio of builders.
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A report by the Massachusetts Audubon Society concludes that residential development represents a growing proportion of land consumption in the state, even though the state has seen little or no growth in single-family housing starts.
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If you're a production builder, we want to hear from you for our annual BUILDER 100 and "next 100" lists.
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Families in central Florida just found it a little easier to buy a house with room for Grandma. This fall, CTX Mortgage (a Centex Corp. subsidiary) and Fannie Mae introduced "Seniors and Family Together," a pilot program that allows buyers to use the income of extended family members who live with...
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We've burned up quite a few pages over the years trying to convince you to build homes for non-traditional households--emptynesters, singles, double-income professionals. The compelling evidence that we've always presented is that only 25 percent of U.S. households have children. So, the logic goes...
NAHB president-elect Bobby Rayburn plans to house America's working families by fostering strategic partnerships.