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Owner-Occupied Housing Stock Is Aging

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An older housing stock paired with rising home prices signals a growing remodeling market as more buyers choose to make purchases based on affordability and renovate for upgrades down the road, says NAHB Eye on Housing. But more than half of the owner-occupied homes were built before 1980, with around 38% built before 1970. Housing Markets.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. In his commencement speech to Stanford University graduates in 2005, he references The Whole Earth Catalog from the mid-1970’s: On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.

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Top 6 Most Dangerous Construction Activities

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Falls are the leading cause of construction-worker fatalities, accounting for one-third of on-the-job deaths in the industry. Construction industry accounted for 54% of all electrical fatalities, the same percentage as in 2017. Here are the top 6 training courses for the construction industry that address high risk activities: 1.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics Releases Finalized Occupational Death Findings

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The published fatal injury rate for 2011 equals the lowest rate reported by the program since the conversion to hours-based rates in 2006. Highlights of the revisions includ: Fatal work injuries involving contractors accounted for 12 percent of all fatal work injuries in 2011.

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Home Building by the Numbers

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The Shinn Group’s long-running Fin-Op analysis, backed by decades of data, offers builders a road map to profitability and a benchmark of performance. In 2019, for example, the average profitability among the builders surveyed rose to 9.59% of revenue, up from 8.71% in 2018—the best performance since 2006, before the crash (see chart 1).

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One in four U.S. bridges needs repair

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The $140 billion price tag was derived by multiplying the total number of square meters of the problem bridges by the average cost per square meter— in 2006 dollars— to do the work. "We We need federal intervention, and federal intervention at a big level," said Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell after AASHTO released details of the report.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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As early as 2006, Ivory Development president Chris Gamvroulas began reaching out to other builders, developers, and associations representing real estate agents and landlords to collaborate through the Utah Property Rights Coalition. “We RELATED: How Small and Medium-Size Builders Can Prevail.