Skilled Trades Are Open to Technology, Survey Finds
Amidst the ongoing labor shortage, technology and digital tools can offer labor-saving gains, and the skilled trades are willing to embrace new tech in their jobs
How This Luxury Custom Home Builder Wins Business with AI and Innovation
How AI is helping custom home builders differentiate and win more business through exceptional customer experience and more efficient workflows.
Putting AI at the Center of Home Building
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
Unlock Home Builder Success: Insights from Leading Customer Experience Brands
How to provide clients with “the right information at the right time” experience
Simplify Your Homebuilding Operations with Centralized Data
Women at WIRC
Women at WIRC: Karlie Fike Is Introducing AI to the Home Building Industry
As head of operations at Togal.AI, Fike is using artificial intelligence to speed the takeoff process and simplify existing jobs for home builders
Off-Site Construction
Entekra Exit: The Off-Site Construction Company Will Shut Down by June 30
Off-site home construction company Entekra, which is majority-owned by LP, fails to get new capital investment and will close as a result
Off-Site Construction
A Case (Study) for Off-Site Construction in Home Building
California builder Hallmark Communities and prefab panel manufacturer Agorus team up to assemble six attached townhomes in three days
Building Technology
Could 3D-Printed Homes Solve a Worsening Affordability Crisis?
Experts say 3D-printed home building could solve a housing supply deficit and a growing affordability crisis, but its success hinges on more widespread acceptance from an industry that has traditionally regarded change with hesitation
Building Technology
Tampa Startup Introduces First 3D-Printed Home to the Bay Area
Tampa-based Click, Print, Home recently unveiled its first 3D-printed residential project in the Tampa Bay area
Modular Homes
System P4 Is Bringing the Speed of Car Manufacturing to Modular Home Construction
The launch of housing facility System P4 marks the beginning of a more efficient way to produce modular homes off site
Building Technology
How One Lumber Store Is Creating an Immersive Virtual Reality Design Experience
An Ohio lumber retailer is building a virtual reality studio that will allow homebuyers to tour mockup floor plans before their home is built
Modular Homes
How One Modular Building Company Is Working to Solve a Global Housing Crisis
Led by U.S. product director Eva Talbot, Modulous is a construction technology firm that is automating the modular building process to speed up the production of affordable homes
Regulations
Zoning Regulations Pose Challenges for Regional Builders, but Three Female-Led Projects May Help
These trailblazing women are digitizing zoning codes and regulations to help builders create more affordable housing
Construction
A Minute With Mark: SIPs Roof Panels
Mark LaLiberte talks about the durability and dependability of structural insulated panels (SIPs) used to create an R-50 roof deck for the Desert Comfort Experience Home in Scottsdale, Ariz.