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
Why Spec Homes' Success May Light A Path To Housing's Future
Dire constraints come with benefits. They may actually ignite profitably-produced affordable, sustainable, and resilient housing. Simpler and more standardized.
Architecture
Value Engineering Is Only Partly About Design And Price ... It's A Strategy
Tactics and tailwinds – necessary and successful as they've been in stemming what could have been a rout from the start of 2023 – amount to this: They've bought builders time.
Technology
Why Entekra Tanked Is Relevant; But, Why It Matters Is Crucial
An exclusive TBD second-day lead and analysis of where Entekra's shocking failure casts critical questions on an array of housing innovation initiatives that have sprung up in the past five to seven years.
Wellness & The Built Environment
Taking Up Space: Mental Health Emerges As A Design Priority
The built environment may be one area we have more control over than other factors affecting mental wellness, but only if we design and create with intention.
Architecture
Today's Edge Goes To Builder Players With Time On Their Side
Despite our confidence in what we know and how certain we are of our predictions coming true, it's always uncannily the case that "time discovers truth."
