Significant savings can be found in being more efficient with trade labor, materials, and employees, but that isn’t how you find the real cost savings in production building. The route to the margin you seek is through process

The shortage of qualified trade contractors is a problem that vexes the entire industry and finally people are waking up to it, largely for the…

This week I read that Ivy Zelman, generally acknowledged as the top homebuilding financial analyst, was laying it on pretty heavy to builders at a…

There are at least two dollars of process waste for each dollar you find in product, and the larger the builder, the greater the waste

One of my “guilty pleasures” – you know, things that you should be embarrassed to admit you love – is the John Travolta movie, The Phenomenon…

2015 will be the Year of Building Dangerously, unless ... you find additional margin. Here’s where to look for it

If you think you’ll get significantly higher retail prices in 2015 for your homes, you’re kidding yourself—but there are some factors you can control

There's much that builders can do to build better homes while eliminating waste, but suppliers and trades have a part to play in it

Why home builders and other businesses have communication problems and how to address them

Pennsylvania-based Orleans Homes navigated through Chapter 11 bankruptcy to rebuild a family company