Building Tech & Products
The Innovator's Journal: The Journey Of A Housing Start-Up
This is the first in five-part series from award-winning engineer Candice Delamarre, who with four Stanford University colleagues, created Kit Switch, a novel idea to convert unused offices into homes. Here's how.
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Eli Broad: TBD Remembers One Of Modern Homebuilding's Legends
Eli Broad, RIP — TBD salutes the achievement, force of will, and fearless focus on an unmet need among working households for a shot at the American Dream of one of building's legends.
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The Framewalk Reimagined: Learning To Live In Covid Time
The adrenaline blast a homebuyer may experience walking through a fit-and-finished home is akin to that thrill builders feel as they walk through a rough-framed and roofed enclosure. Here's a framewalk, unplugged.
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The Dream Team Weighs In on Capability and Culture
Massive shortfalls in labor across the spectrum affect every aspect of the building business. In part 1 of our Capability and Culture special, our Dream Team tackles how we got here and what to do about it.
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The Builders' Cliff: Risk, Capability, And Culture
We reframe real estate, construction, and distribution's labor crisis as a call to action for a community pivot to a culture of care, equity, constant improvement, and dynamism.
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Ground Game: If Builders Want To Dig Out Of Their Lumber Woes, Slabs Count
The lowly slab is a critical path issue to homes that build straight, square, and level, which is the only way they’ll build faster, on budget, and at a high quality standard. Slabs, according to NAHB analysis of Survey of Construction data, account for 63% of new home foundations.
