Architecture
Agility Wins: Builders Rethink Designs To Help Cut Costs
Homebuilders opt for easy-to-install materials and implement strategic design adjustments to make homes more efficient and accessible to first-time buyers.
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Architecture
Hope Springs Eternal In Fight To Innovate Housing Affordability
By framing housing development as a collective effort, Madelon's story underscores the importance of collaboration between the private sector, policymakers, and communities in creating housing attainability solutions.
Architecture
Homebuilding's Top 10 Trends In 2024: No. 3 Smaller Houses
Smaller home sizes don't – and can't – mean less value. It remains to be seen whether architects, engineers, and operators will succeed in creating iconic entry-level style homes whose form and function speak particularly to Millennial and Generation Z adult households.
Technology
Eliminating Guesswork In Real-Time A Key To 2024 Resiliency
In a "VUCA-for-longer" backdrop, guesswork and the wide margins of error needed to sustain viability that go with ballpark ranges, rough estimates, and theoretical outcomes practically beg for extinction moments.
Architecture
'Value Engineering' 2023-Style Adds Real Value As It Cuts Cost
Value engineering needs a reset to satisfy both the business requirements to produce homes profitably in trickier times, and to win over customers whose discrimination and hesitation guards may go up at any moment.
Land
An Insider's Look At Tri Pointe's Organic Expansion Playbook
To hear Tom Mitchell, a few more new Tri Pointe divisions – organic and or via acquisition – may follow closely on the heels of the Utah expansion. One of them sounds imminent: Orlando and/or Tampa-St. Pete, FL.
