Advertisement
Blogs
Blogs
Oakland, Philadelphia, 6 other cities to get free advice on LEED-ND
Philadelphia, Oakland and six other U.S. cities will get free help this year from sustainable building and development experts with an eye toward…
What is your key to success in remodeling?
We reached out to dozens of remodelers for…
ISO9001 Impact on Construction Workmanship Performance
A study published in ASQ’s Quality Management Journal this month (Jan 2012) found that ISO9001 Certification (Quality Management Systems…
The Lean Designer: The best way to prepare for a plan review
As many of you know by now Professional Builder is holding three days of plan reviews by some of the top designers and architects in the country…
The Lean Builder: Our future – Fairmont or Fusion
With the February edition of Professional Builder, I begin a series on the evolution of quality management. Here is a more detailed version of an…
The Lean and Green Builder: Lesson 9 - WaterSense makes cents
Walking in my home last evening, I was greeted with the usual excitement of children running around, the dog barking and my wife sharing the…
Trades and NHQA Performance Excellence
Trade partners have used the National Housing Quality Award over the years as an application process to gain independent feedback on how they can…
Remodeling and NHQ Performance Excellence
Remodeler winners of the National Housing Quality Award over the years cite a range of best practices that helped them to achieve this level of…
The Lean and Green Builder: Lesson 8 – fresh air?
For years the building industry has been focused on sealing the holes in our homes to prevent air infiltration. Initially our concerns focused on…
The foundations of Quality, Deming
Many people today still see quality as being about 'incremental improvement' rather than innovation and fast dynamic change and particularly those…
