PB August 2002

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Tom Gillespie, vice president of housing for suburban Chicago builder Kennedy Homes, says “the real breakthroughs in hard costs will not come from quantity buying of materials as much as by simplifying the plans we build to reduce the number of parts w...

Cultured Stone, maker of veneers that mimic the look and feel of natural stone, has de-signed a program to help builders and architects specify fireplace designs.

Like dozens of other towns across the country, the neighborhoods of Washington Township in central New Jersey sprang up from farmland and grew haphazardly, without stopping to build an actual downtown or Main Street.

New features of Jobmaster cabinets include a foot latch for hands-free opening of the cabinet doors.

Artistic Homes was already the largest builder in New Mexico when, 18 months ago, it re-engineered its building system from top to bottom.

Now that the fees charged to a builder in a Livermore, Calif., project have topped $100,000, the natural question is how high they are everywhere else?

The Next tape measure offers users one-hand, pencil-free marking of wood, metal, drywall and many more surfaces.

The Timberlast composite deck system will not rot, rust or corrode, never needs scraping or painting, and is impervious to insects, the company says.

Little more than three years ago this former cabinet salesman spent a vacation in Sarasota, Fla., visiting his brother, a new home sales professional.