Watch Out for Rising Star
Moser Builders, a custom home builder in Berwyn, Penn., is an up and coming star to watch in the national marketing sky. With its beginnings almost 20 years ago, the regional builder of homes in the Pennsylvania counties of Chester and Delaware is making a name for itself, not only regionally, but nationally now as well.
Greenlee
The PDMM-20 is a low-impedance multimeter with an auto-ranging for easy voltage and resistance measurements. The non-contact voltage detection function identifies live lines, and for added safety, the end-user is freed from having to switch any dials and introduce the risk of selecting the wrong function.
Dupont Tyvek HomeWrap
www.construction.tyvek.com Siding — whether vinyl, wood, stucco, brick, or composite — does not completely prevent air and water penetration. Tyvek HomeWrap is a secondary defense to help manage a home's wall systems by serving as a protective layer under siding and over the sheathing. The Tyvek weatherization membrane wraps around a home over the wood or foam sheathing, cut out aro...
Building Science: Understanding Heat Flow
Never has a homeowner walked a model home and asked the salesperson about building science. New home shoppers expect that their new home automatically includes a living environment as comfortable as it is beautiful. Delivering on this expectation is building science. So what is building science? In this series we will answer that question in detail, but first let's begin with a definition: buil...
Improving Customer Touchpoints
At Standard-Pacific Homes, managers from each department in the Dallas division are busy improving their overall customer service process. Since September, a newly created Customer Service Management Council meets monthly. At the initial meeting, about 15 department heads, representing purchasing, accounting, options, closing, warranty, upper management and in-house title and mortgage companies...
Pass & Seymour/Legrand
New in the TradeMaster line are two new tamper-resistant ground fault circuit interrupter receptacles, one with a built-in hallway light that uses a high-output LED for better illumination and longer life. Tamper-resistance features include a UL-listed and automatic mechanical shutter system that prevents objects from being inserted into the receptacle.
Sheathing
AdvanTech Flooring and Sheathing
AdvanTech flooring and sheathing panels are specifically engineered to provide more water resistance and stability than plywood
The Evolution of Master-Planned Communities
The end of World War II marked a watershed, not only in global geopolitical relationships, but in the development of the American community as well. For over a decade and a half this nation had struggled with an unprecedented economic melt-down followed by a battle for survival of the free world as we knew it.
Builders Score with Fans
The opening of Petco Park, San Diego's new downtown baseball park, was more accessible to San Diego's North County residents, thanks in part to five home builder/developers. From April 5 through October 1, Bosa Development, Barratt American, Brookfield Homes, D.R. Horton-Continental Series, and Shea Homes were part of a public-private partnership called The Coaster Home Run.
Saicis
Tico Taco is a porcelain tile with the HI-TECH Gres characteristics of unglazed, multiple-loaded porcelain with rectified and polished options. This tile can be used for both residential and commercial environments. Tico Taco offers a shimmering stone look that's complete with a variety of colors, sizes, mosaics and decorative pieces.
