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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize esorum Thu, 03/16/2023 - 09:09 This year’s finalists in the Construction & Design category include solutions to the labor shortage as well as environmentally friendly building solutions focused on decreasing construction time.

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Precut Framing Field Test: Does This Off-Site Solution Earn Its Keep?

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Builders want to take small, non-threatening steps toward innovation, ones that reduce risk, improve customer satisfaction, and don’t create big changes to their current process. That is, assuming the framer understands his ability to make a higher overall profit by framing more homes with the same labor force. . Innovation.

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

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To assist those interested in making the journey, Pro Builder and the Pittsburgh-based Housing Innovation Alliance initiated a comprehensive “IC Road Map” with the help of a working group consisting of home builders, suppliers, researchers, and other industry experts. We can’t keep banging our heads against the wall.

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Housing, Industrialized: Designing for Off-Site

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By shaving just a foot off the depth of the three-story, side-by-side duplex destined for an infill lot in Pittsburgh, he enabled Structural Modular Innovations to build three boxes at a time on its factory floor instead of only two. Not so in a factory. Think modular can’t compete on style and still be affordable? Photo: Jeff A.

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Housing's Now: The Ultimate Z.E.N. Home

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Just ask Thrive Home Builders , a midsize production operation in Denver amid a sea of large-volume publics. Thrive has been doing net zero—profitably—since 2014, when the company launched its first Zero Energy Now (Z.E.N.) Location: Central Park, Denver. Are we profitable? Innovation. The code has been cracked.

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FEATURE STORY: The Cultural Roots Of High-Tech Growth

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The Rocky Mountain Innosphere is a non-profit technology incubator formed to accelerate the success of high-impact scientific and technology startup companies and promote the development of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado. Cheyenne, Denver and Colorado Springs all made the list’s top 10. By Jonathan Sanders.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

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Horton, Denver. Andrew Owen , 31, Project Manager, Thrive Home Builders, Denver. Jared Phifer , 39, President, Revolve Design-Build, Denver. Jared Phifer , 39, President, Revolve Design-Build, Denver. Maureen Luyun , 33, Regional Marketing Manager, D.R. Carla Ramalho , 31, Product Manager, WernerCo., Itasca, Ill.