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Colorado Permits Reveal New-Home Construction Trend

Pro Builder

Colorado Permits Reveal New-Home Construction Trend. Single-family construction permits increased 7.6% from 2019 to 2020 statewide in Colorado, and breaking down the permits per county reveals a trend for new-home construction. But its increase in permits last year was much lower. Housing Markets.

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The First Permitted Tire Bale Home in New Mexico

Natural Building

I recently received the following email from Kimi Ishikawa: We are in the process of building the first-ever fully permitted tire bale home in New Mexico! We were very very interested to see that they were sharing the PDF of our house plans! I don’t think they have built any since in Colorado. Excellent.

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Linda Purdy on TRI Pointe's Goals and Challenges in the Colorado Market

Pro Builder

Linda Purdy on TRI Pointe's Goals and Challenges in the Colorado Market. TRI Pointe's Linda Purdy shares her perspective on acquiring land, building homes at attainable prices, and other challenges for growing the home builder's Colorado division. TRI Pointe Homes, Colorado. Wed, 03/10/2021 - 06:00. Mike Beirne, Senior Editor.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

Pro Builder

Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction. Sidebar: The Synergy of Industrialized Construction and Built-for-Rent Housing. delivers four houses per week, about half the time it would take to frame the same number of houses on-site, Logue says. Mon, 10/04/2021 - 14:02.

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Cochise County, Arizona, May Mandate Building Codes

Natural Building

I got an email this morning from Clay Greathouse who is beginning to build an earthbag house for his family in Cochise County, Arizona. In other words, you either have to have a lot of money or you will forever have to live in rentals or government supplied housing, meaning, quite frankly, wealth discrimination.

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

Green Building Law Update

That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland.

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More states add jobs; construction cost squeeze worsens; nonres, housing starts rise

PSMJ Resources

The steepest declines were in Nevada, -10.8%, -6,500 jobs; Rhode Island, -10.0%, -1,600 jobs; Georgia, -8.5%, -12,700 jobs; Vermont, -7.9%, -1,100 jobs; and Colorado, -7.7%, -8,900 jobs. Privately owned housing starts in May climbed 3.5% Building permits, generally a reliable indicator of near-term future starts, rose 8.7%

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