5 Steps to Restore Customer Confidence
When things go wrong on a project, your ultimate objective should be to not only resolve the issue but to restore customer trust and confidence. Here's how
Shinn Group's 2024 Achievement Awards Winners
The awards recognize home builders for their excellence, discipline, and continuous improvement
7 Sales and Marketing Trends to Watch (and Learn From)
These award-winning campaigns from NAHB's 2024 National Sales and Marketing Awards showcase next-level strategies and stellar results
Proven Ways to Improve Jobsite Productivity
Consider these solutions for reducing cycle time, hard costs, dry runs, rework, miscommunication, and overall inefficiencies on the jobsite
Sales and Texting? Know the Rules
Texting your sales prospects en masse can be an efficient way to get your message through if you follow these best practices
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
Business Management
How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached
Restrictive covenants can help your business avoid loss of trade secrets and litigation when workers jump ship
NAHB
NAHB Chairman’s Message: Development of Next National Green Building Standard Underway
Home Innovation Research Labs has begun the process of developing the next edition of the ICC-700 NGBS, the national standard used to define and measure sustainable design and construction
Quality Matters
Construction Details for Trouble-Free Stucco Overhangs
Transitions where horizontal and vertical stucco surfaces intersect are prone to moisture problems. Attention to proper detailing will help you avoid issues with water intrusion
National Housing Quality Award
National Housing Quality Award Recipients and Profiles 1993–2024
An archive of NHQA-winning companies that represent home building's best in Total Quality Management
Lean Building
Reducing 3 Types of Construction Waste to Increase Home Builder Profit
Waste in home building is a much broader term than most home builders think. Here’s how builders can take stock of all forms of waste throughout the construction process to achieve greater profitability
Sales + Marketing
11 Tactics for Creating an Outstanding Construction Brand Identity
Branding isn’t just your company logo, it’s how you want customers to perceive your business. Follow these 11 steps to create a robust brand identity for your construction company
Quality Matters
Gaps Are Good: Leave Strategic Gaps in Construction to Limit Cracks and Callbacks
It may sound counterintuitive, but by creating gaps that allow the roof, walls, and floor of a house to move, home builders can mitigate callbacks and lost profit
Quality Matters
How to Prevent Moisture Problems in Brick Veneer Walls
Clogged drainage cavities and blocked weeps in brick veneer can be catastrophic when it comes to creating moisture problems, and they appear to be more common than ever
National Builders
Builders Decide Which COVID-Initiated Operations Should Continue in 2022
Builders took on a number of new strategies to combat pandemic-related obstacles—here are a few that may be around for the long haul
Builder of the Year
Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda
Ivory Homes in Salt Lake City is Pro Builder's 2021 Builder of the Year