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How to Create a More Inclusive Workplace for Women in Construction
Consider these tips and techniques to attract and retain more women in your home building company and reap the benefits of a more diverse workforce
AI in Home Building ... What Now? What Next?
Artificial intelligence is coming to home building. How can builders use AI in new-home construction? Start with this primer
Ways to Improve Home Building Productivity, Part 2: Automation
Home builders can maximize efficiencies gained through simplification and standardization by automating both on-site and back-office operations
Built on Happiness: Meet Pro Builder's 2023 Builder of the Year
Delaware-based Schell Brothers, our 2023 Builder of the Year, brings a refreshing approach to delivering homes and measuring success with an overriding mission of happiness
A Broken Housing System Hurts American Families
NAHB Chairman's Message: In a challenging business environment for home builders, and with higher housing costs for families, the National Association of Home Builders is working to help home builders better meet the nation's housing needs
Pro Builder 2024 Housing Forecast
Sure there are challenges, but overall, Pro Builder's annual Housing Forecast Survey finds home builders are optimistic about the coming year
Leadership
The 7 Responsibilities of Leadership
What makes a leader? The answer isn't found in rank and privilege. The answer is found by understanding a leader’s responsibilities
New-Home Sales
The Importance of Staying Focused in a Reemerging Market
As more homes begin to sell, all of the players involved in sales eventually will get some benefit from the momentum alone. But good markets cover up and forgive a lot of bad processes and business errors
Develop strategic sources of supply
Builders need to prepare and face a challenge that they haven’t seen in many years—rising material and labor costs and shortages. Passing the costs along by simply raising prices won’t be enough to solve the problem.
Project Management
Building Homes Is Hard; Giving in to Custom Changes Is Harder
Now that new-home sales have nearly doubled from their 2010 low, we are facing the challenges of a recovering market
Business Management
The Margin Gap: Part II
On the long road back toward sales levels rivaling the best years in the industry, are similar profit levels still available? Where will we find profit?
The underutilized and awesomely powerful spreadsheet
From what I gather in my dealings with builders and designers, our industry underutilizes spreadsheets.
Business Management
The Margin Gap: Beyond the Usual Suspects
Finding building companies full of good people operating with no better than marginal processes is common. What’s that got to do with profit margin? Plenty
The customer really wants you to be right
In home building, the customer is rarely right. Wow, I bet you didn’t think you would see that statement coming from a customer satisfaction expert; but it is true, and here is why.
Lean Building
Even Lean Is Local
It's said that home building is a local business. Regardless, you should still measure all of your costs
Uponor named 2013 Manufacturer of the Year by Manufacturers Alliance
On April 11, the Manufacturers Alliance honored Uponor as the 2013 Manufacturer of the Year in the large-company category.
