H.R. Department: More Vacancies Ahead?
Most builders will tell you that people — or lack there of — are their greatest challenge to growth. The need for qualified people at all levels is far greater than the supply. Nothing indicates the situation will improve anytime soon.
Professional Builder Giant 400: What Happens Next?
It's been more than 13 years since the housing industry faced this kind of uncertainty.
Shea Homes San Diego - 2006 NHQ Gold Award Winner
Corporate Profile: Shea Homes San Diego (SHSD) is part of the J.F. Shea Co. Inc. family of companies. Established in 1881, Shea is one of the oldest and largest privately held operations in the United States. Started in 1968, Shea Homes builds homes and develops master-planned communities throughout California, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina and Washington.
Your Choice in Cost Control
What is your strategy for finding money when you need it most? Here is an exercise for discovering how you and your staff go about uncovering hidden assets.
Pipe Dreams: Behind the Scene Upgrades
If you want to build kitchens and baths that are beautiful inside and out, you might want to make some upgrades where they can't be seen — the plumbing system. Technologies like home run plumbing, air admittance valves (AAVs), tankless water heaters, low-flow fixtures and gray water reuse piping provide homeowners easier long-term maintenance and lower utility bills.
Veridian Homes - 2006 NHQ Gold Award Winner
Corporate Profile: Veridian Homes of Madison, Wisc. is a semi-custom production builder of single and condominium homes. Family-owned and operated, Veridian was formed in 2003 through the merger of Don Simon Homes and Midland Builders, two of Wisconsin's oldest and most respected home builders.
Upward Glance
In this issue of Professional Builder, we gaze upward at the 400 largest home builders in the country — the Giant 400. We do this to provide a benchmark and get a sense of what's going on in the industry. It offers us a touchstone on our individual businesses, provides an insight to emerging trends and delivers a measurement of the movements and tectonic shifts of the industry.
Creative Cabinet Solutions
Cabinets — they're not just for kitchens and bathrooms anymore. And the ones that are still there are being used in new and creative ways. Necessity is the mother of invention, and homeowners are finding themselves on a relentless quest for more space to put all of their things.
C.P. Morgan - 2006 NHQ Silver Award Winner
Corporate Profile: C.P. Morgan is a residential land development and home building company serving the metropolitan Indianapolis and Lafayette markets in Indiana and Charlotte, NC. Headquartered in Indianapolis, C.P. Morgan is the first home builder in Indiana to receive the Better Business Bureau of Central Indiana's Torch Award for Business Ethics.
Cancelled Customers
What should you do about a cancelled customer - simply move on or maintain an ongoing relationship? Several sales people provide their perspective.
