PB September 1999

DeLuca Enterprises and Berwind Property Group acquired Realen Homes, based in Ambler, Pa., in June for an undisclosed amount.

Initially, home builders thought participants in the Health House effort for better indoor quality were crazy radicals, remembers Dianne Walsh Astry, one of the folks taking the brunt of that early negative reaction.

The most remarkable aspect of Dewees Island is the way developer John Knott sells greenness, and how well that sales pitch works.

Clayton Preston, Robert Reed and Greg Ramsey, the principals of Village Habitat Design in Atlanta

Building permits nationwide were issued at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.621 million units during June, a 1.9% increase over the month and 5.9% above the total for June 1998.

Following in the footsteps of other large-volume builders, Richmond American Homes of Irvine, Calif. opened a full-scale design center, HomeShaper Gallery, in Yorba Linda in June 1998.

For a dozen years or more, production builders have been tinkering with their sales and production processes to get closer to custom.

Sixteen percent. If you follow technology news, that’s a number you’ve seen and heard a lot lately.

PATH prototype shows that environmentally sound construction offers promising returns.

No one in Florida questions the value of Energy Star, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark voluntary program to improve energy efficiency in new housing built across America.