In your opinion, what are the greatest impediments to the implementation of IPD? Great concept, but forming a team that can actually work together is very difficult in an industry marked by silos. Insurance protection is iffy...

What’s the secret to maximize value and building better projects every time? Get everyone focused on creating customer value at the design stage, make better decisions along the way and work together, concurrently–in short,...

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Look around you – Look up, down and out the window. Do you see a series of triangles? Did you look up at the roof, down at the floor or out the window at a building or bridge? Whether or not you can see the triangles, the...

Last week the National Home Builders Association (NHBA) hosted its annual International Builders’ Show (IBS) in Orlando, Florida. IBS is the largest light construction show with over 47,000 building industry attendees and over...

When was the last time you conjured up your imagination? What if you could tap into the resources of your colleagues for a day or two to imagine a solution to a project that has baffled you for the last year, month or week?...

As a business owner, you're in sales whether you think so or not. Every day you have to sell yourself -- and your product or service -- to grow your business. If you're not sure you have the personality to succeed in selling, consider these 13 rules.

BuilderMT, North America’s best-selling construction workflow software solution provider, today announced that its client Logan Homes has...

Brooke Warrick is president and founder of Carmel Valley, Calif.–based American LIVES. Energy efficiency, because most resales can’t compete with it. Every new-home builder must ask the question, “How can I compete with the...

Attend a FREE Lean Building seminar by industry visionary Scott Sedam of TrueNorth Development Presented by ITW Instinct and sponsored by a host of residential building industry innovators and leaders, you will learn how Lean...

When you have a customer that wants to see what you have done in the past and are capable of doing in the future, how do you show off your construction portfolio of work? Here is what I do. I created a construction portfolio on Loman.biz. It is free- like setting up a profile on LinkedIn or Faceboook. But it is better because it is geared towards business. Also, it is easy to use so you don’t need