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Women at WIRC Podcast: Lindy Oliva, Episode 18

Pro Builder

Lindy Oliva, president of PulteGroup’s Houston division, entered the industry through a finance position, but it was embracing each opportunity that came her way that got her to where she is today. Women at WIRC Podcast: Lindy Oliva, Episode 18. cbroderick. Thu, 07/22/2021 - 13:40. Women at WIRC.

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Optimizing acoustics with stone wool ceilings

Construction Specifier

Its new regional headquarters opened in 2021, located in Brookshire, Texas, approximately 48 km (30 mi) from downtown Houston. The 4180 m 2 (45,000 sf) facility houses more than 100 employees working in sales, operations, engineering, human resources (HR), finance, and other support functions.

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Top Railway Projects in the US

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The Texas Central project is a high-speed train line that connects North Texas and Greater Houston, with one stop in Brazos Valley. The high-speed train, which can reach speeds of over 200 miles an hour, will enable commuters to travel back and forth between Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth in less than 90 minutes. .

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Big Builders Pilot Online Home Design and Purchasing Programs

Pro Builder

Builders Taylor Morrison and PulteGroup recently rolled out pilot programs that allows buyers to choose, design, finance, and put their new home right into their shopping carts. She is a first-time homebuyer, but she said she felt very comfortable purchasing the Houston home without ever entering a showroom. . “A

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PulteGroup to Build 7,500 Single-Family For-Rent Homes

Pro Builder

The company started by purchasing a recently completed 124-unit SFR community near Houston earlier this year from leading homebuilder D.R. The platform has secured a $300 million line of credit from Goldman Sachs to help finance its SFR expansion plan. Horton (DHI). It's then leasing them as part of its value-add investment strategy.

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Spanish-U.S.-Israeli Team Is Preferred Bidder for $1B PPP Houston Toll Road

ENR Construction

Team, which also includes US and Israeli participants, will seek financing for $1B Harris County project upon contract award. Infrastructure'

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

Nationwide, office vacancies stand at 17%, with some big cities—San Francisco, Houston, Austin—topping 30%, while the U.S. But making an adaptive reuse project pencil out in a tight financing market isn’t so simple. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.