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09.08.10
Custom Home
Natural Talent Design Contest Finalists Announced
Four home concepts by students and emerging professionals demonstrate innovation in small, sustainable, affordable, ADA-compliant design. More...
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09.08.10
Custom Home
EPA Publishes First Indoor airPLUS Guidance Module
New technical guidance on moisture control details how to implement the construction specifications of the indoor air quality program for new homes. More...
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09.08.10
Custom Home
Natural Talent Design Contest Finalists Announced
Four home concepts by students and emerging professionals demonstrate innovation in small, sustainable, affordable, ADA-compliant design. More...
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09.08.10
Custom Home
Google SketchUp 8 Released
Latest version of the 3D modeling software offers new documentation, shape-manipulation, and geo-modeling capabilities, along with a slew of improved... More...
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09.08.10
Big Builder
Avg. mortgage rate up to 4.35 pct. off decades-low
WASHINGTON - Mortgage rates mostly edged up last week as investors' fears about the economy eased. More...
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09.08.10
Big Builder
Hopes rise as jobless claims fall, trade gap eases
WASHINGTON - The number of people signing up for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in two months, an encouraging sign that companies... More...
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09.07.10
Custom Home
Solar Power's Price to Plummet
Spurred by the Recovery Act, technological innovations will make renewable energy cheaper, government says. More...
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09.07.10
Big Builder
Mortgage Apps Fall, Purchase Only Rises
Mortgage applications fell last week, running into the Labor Day holiday, but purchase-only applications surged, the Mortgage Bankers Assn. More...
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09.07.10
Custom Home
Structural Insulated Panels Have Many Fans, So Why Don't More Builders Use Them?
SIPs offer superior energy efficiency to conventional stick-frame building. More...
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09.07.10
Big Builder
Networth: Is a another federal home-buyer tax credit coming?
Is another federal home-buyer tax credit coming?We think it's important for the market to have time to recover on its own," says Walter Molony,... More...
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09.09.10
Jamie Pirrello
Buying Clout: The Advantages of Big Vs. the Advantages of Trust
Do large builders, either public or private have cost advantage over smaller builders? Is the value they receive greater as a result of their... More...
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09.08.10
As We See It
Design-Build's Advantages
I thought I'd share a recent post from the blog run by BUILD LLC, one of CUSTOM HOME's 2010 Pacesetter Awards winners, extolling the virtues... More...
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09.02.10
Elizabeth Donoff
Energy's Blue Future
Energy efficiency is a term that gets pretty wide use. But what does it mean? Generally speaking, the term indicates getting maximum productivity... More...
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09.02.10
Elizabeth Donoff
The Proverbial Light Bulb
A major change is on the horizon when it comes to the light sources we use to illuminate our homes. In 2012, 100W incandescent A-lamps will no longer... More...
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09.02.10
John McManus
Time Out! Rethinking Homeownership? Or Rethinking Newsweeklies?
The people that bring you People have too much spare Time on their hands, or so it seems. Maybe it's just the month of August, but it... More...
