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How Excessive Design Standards Hurt Home Affordability

Pro Builder

Stringent residential design standards imposed by local governments are affecting housing costs; the impact of new residential construction on the broader economy (chart). NAHB Housing Policy Briefing. Requiring architectural features such as offsets, projections, recesses, and windows to “break up” large expanses of blank wall.

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The Home Building Technology Revolution, Part III: The Missing Link

Pro Builder

Perhaps we need to start with a “Technology Czar,” whether in-house or a third party, showing the benefits, training the employees to use it properly, and monitoring progress. From Todd Booze, program director, National Housing Quality Award . Maybe the answer is to bring some or all of the work back in-house.

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Construction Leads – So Many Leads, So Little Time!

Construction Marketing

We’ll identify other national construction lead services, regional lead services, (local) contractor/remodeler lead services, government lead services, and finally other lead services including equipment lease and architectural specification directories. Value of the project and often value of major subcontracts. Leads Smeads.

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Job Order Contract Program Implementation

Job Order Contracting

Work below a $2k-$5k threshold should not be included in the analysis as this level may not be cost effective and/or may be best accomplish by in-house staff or alternative methods. Does the database address the current Masterformat data architecture? Consider what work is being accomplished, how, by whom, and where. Prepriced limits.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Matthew Keck, BIM Manager at Metromont 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We make our instructions, our Lego blocks, and some of our plants do their own in-house erection. Here in Greenville, we subcontract the erection, but we oversee it. I had a knack for Revit because of my residential, architecture, and building background. We put them together with instructions. That’s basically what we do.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2023

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Apart from driving digitalization, Yasmine has been involved in a startup focusing on sustainable housing using AI—a project that earned her a nomination to present at Autodesk University. I've worked with Jonathan at two different electrical subcontracting firms, and at both jobs, he has been an innovation leader.

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Things Contractors Should Know About Job Order Contracts

Job Order Contracting

Cost and accounting transparency via standardized cost data architectures, terms, and definitions. prison, airport, court house) work and after-hours work will need to be included in the books, or otherwise provided for. Subcontracting: Do. Subcontracting: Don’ts. Value and qualification based selection and procurement.

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