6th Annual Most Valuable Product Awards
Drumroll ... Please join us in celebrating our 6th Annual MVP Awards winners, which represent the best in innovative building products
Fortera Takes Concrete Steps to Reduce the Climate Impact of Cement
Clean-tech company Fortera, which uses technology to capture carbon emissions form cement manufacturing, will open its first commercial-scale operation on April 12, 2024, in California
Lumber Leads Building Materials Prices Higher in March
Overall, the cost of building materials rose during March, with softwood lumber, gypsum products, and concrete all seeing price increases. Only steel mill materials saw price drops
6th Annual MVP Awards: Connected Home
The Most Valuable Product Awards showcase the best in new building product design, innovation, and functionality. Here are the winners in the Connected Home category
6th Annual MVP Awards: Doors + Windows
The Most Valuable Product Awards showcase the best in new building product design, innovation, and functionality. Here are the winners in the Doors + Windows category
6th Annual MVP Awards: Exterior
The Most Valuable Product Awards showcase the best in new building product design, innovation, and functionality. Here are the winners in the Exterior category
The New American Home
The How Behind the Wow of The New American Home 2019
Underneath its intriguing desert contemporary form and finishes, The New American Home 2019 is a model of performance-driven systems and solutions
A 'New Generation' of Building Materials
Manufacturers are innovating building materials to address…
Quality Matters
How to Install Leak-Free Manufactured Stone
Think of manufactured stone like stucco, and treat it as such
New Year, New Paradigm
A new report stresses that flexibility and openness to innovation are key traits for succeeding in real estate and home building when faced with increasing market complexity in 2019, leading up to housing's major inflection point, 2020
Builders
How to Be a 21st Century Builder
Massachusetts-based design build firm Polhemus Savery DaSilva recently offered their current…
'Urban Dinosaurs,' 'Scamazon,' Green New Deal Among Chief Issues for U.S. Cities in 2019
In 2019, U.S. cities will continue to adapt to 10 major issues, including rising…
Construction
Labor Drives Regional Variation in Construction Costs
Recent analysis from BuildZoom found that between construction’s two major cost contributors, material and labor, material prices…
This Week's Codes and Standards, December 10
Building and construction hit peak emissions, strict seismic building codes help in Alaska, urban flooding causing great losses and inequality, and construction of wildfire-resistant and resilient homes
Lumber Prices Falling Like Timber
New data show that producer prices for softwood lumber are at the lowest…
