Few builders take full advantage of value engineering. In most of the home building industry, value engineering's original promises of lower overhead costs and higher product quality remain largely unfulfilled unless collaborative efforts are taken
Keystone Custom Homes keeps its trades accountable to "doing it right the first time," demonstrating that the pen is mightier than the saw in ensuring construction quality
Many home builders invest in customer service training for their staff, but they will always fall short if the company's leadership doesn't model attitudes and behavior
Modern homes are complex systems that comprise dozens of subsystems. With an increase in complexity, detailed scopes of work become ever more important for home builders, and a handshake just won't do
This two-part series explores the impact of valuations on home-building companies. In Part 1, we debunk valuation myths and discuss how a softer market affects valuations
Production builders should look before they go leaping into on-your-lot building as a sideline operation. While it sounds like a good idea on the surface, the process for scattered lot development has its own complexities
The public home builders' filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission show these companies made their best margins ever in 2005, even though they don't separate land profits from those made by building and selling houses. It will be a tou
