PB April 2001

On the B-to-B side, Beazer is going national with MH2 Technologies, after testing that firm’s hand-held scheduling devices for superintendents in Las Vegas and Dallas.

Emphasizing that sustainable design need not be only an option for the wealthy, the Chicago Departments of Housing and the Environment have launched Green Homes for Chicago, in which five homes will be built on scattered sites and then sold to resident...

Christopher Gibbs has seen a lot of changes during his 30-plus years in the home building business. Arriving in California in 1969, Gibbs worked for Trammell Crow Residential Partners and JM Peters.

Factory-built housing companies suffered a downturn in profits in 2000.

In this second installment of our year-long series on the start-up of a new home building company in Sarasota County, Fla., we look at the Total Quality Management underpinnings upon which the firm is founded.

We have all talked about customer satisfaction and JD Powers may be measuring it, but being successful in a tight economy requires it.

Imagine losing all of your professional experience in an instant. Say you go to sleep and you wake up and you have no memory of your company’s operations, the people, the processes, the customers, the systems and how it all operates.

A bucketful of consultants, lots of floor sweepers employed by their fathers, real estate agents, accountants, lawyers, even a dentist — every home builder or building exec got his or her start somewhere.

It started a few months before this year’s NAHB Show. A phone call here, an e-mail there and a quick question in a hallway: “We’re going to NAHB to find a really good software package—what do you recommend?”

Since 1918, the Orleans name has been synonymous with residential real estate in the Philadelphia market. Last year, Orleans Homebuilders Inc. took a proactive approach to the shrinking local land supply by moving into Virginia and North Carolina with ...