What Does It Cost to Build a Single-Family Home?
A closer look at the itemized costs in each stage of construction for a single-family home
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
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
2024 National Housing Quality Awards for Operational Excellence
Camelot Homes earns Gold and Stone Martin Builders earns Bronze in the 2024 NHQA, the highest recognition of operational excellence for home builders
States Where Construction Wages Are Rising the Fastest
These states are home to the highest and fastest rising construction wages in the nation
Purchasing
What’s Your Ratio? Purchasing Ratio, That Is
A step-by-step process to determine a meaningful and useful purchasing ratio
Planning + Development
On Your Lot or Not? Advantages, Challenges of a Semi-Custom Approach
Somewhere between custom and production, building to suit on a client’s land removes some risk, while keeping your creative juices flowing
Business Management
Supplier Survival: Adopt a Highly Differentiating Approach
Suppliers can inspire home builders to think beyond ‘first cost’ to total cost (and even total value). Here's how | Part 2 in a two-part series
Business Management
Survival on the Supply Side—Overcoming the Tyranny of Price Competition
Can suppliers help builders grow beyond their low-bid tactics? Part 1 in a two-part series
Manufacturers + Suppliers
Now Is a Good Time to Review and Refresh Your Materials Supply Chain
Use this guide to identifying and prequalifying suppliers to reinvigorate and stabilize your supply chain
Purchasing
Tap Your Purchasing Team to Build a Stronger Business
Regardless of market conditions, investing in and supporting knowledgable purchasing professionals pays profound dividends
Business Management
Builders, Still Crazy After All These Years
Why is it that, for builders, the more things change, the more they stay the same?
Business Management
Labor Woes? Not if You Follow These 8 Steps to Make Trades Profitable
No mystery here. To become a builder of choice, build solid relationships with trades and suppliers where everyone wins
How To
How to Hone Your Skills at Bid Analysis
Use this formula to select the right trade contractors with more confidence and less risk
Housing Giants
2019 Housing Giants Report: Easy Does It
Solutions combining two or more phases of the construction process to achieve greater productivity and performance are poised to upset the status quo
