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Creating Measurable Value By Cutting Impact, Reducing Waste
"What does Net Zero really mean? We're still trying to figure out. As an industry no one really knows, and that's why I struggle with this term Net Zero. I love the idea of low carbon." -- Christian Rinomato,Manager of Special Projects at Country Homes
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Constellation Homebuilder Systems
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.
Technology
Flux Is Not An Option ... How Homebuilders Manage It Is
When business variables seem each to be channeling their inner VIX index, and when each of those operational spinning plates bears directly on outcomes for every other priority area, agility and resilience emerge as anything but fodder for the B.S. detector.
Together with
Constellation Homebuilder Systems
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.
Leadership
As Buy-Downs And Incentives Drive Sales, New Product Will Jump-Start Next Upturn
It's the true entry-level buyer, and builders' typical early cycle pivot to new product, locations, and features that draw them in, that will signal the next uptick. That buyer's still priced out.
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Technology 10.09.23
Creating Measurable Value By Cutting Impact, Reducing Waste
"What does Net Zero really mean? We're still trying to figure out. As an industry no one really knows, and that's why I struggle with this term Net Zero. I love the idea of low carbon." -- Christian Rinomato,Manager of Special Projects at Country Homes
Architecture 10.06.23
'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.
Technology 06.01.23
Flux Is Not An Option ... How Homebuilders Manage It Is
When business variables seem each to be channeling their inner VIX index, and when each of those operational spinning plates bears directly on outcomes for every other priority area, agility and resilience emerge as anything but fodder for the B.S. detector.
Architecture 05.01.23
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.
Leadership 04.06.23
As Buy-Downs And Incentives Drive Sales, New Product Will Jump-Start Next Upturn
It's the true entry-level buyer, and builders' typical early cycle pivot to new product, locations, and features that draw them in, that will signal the next uptick. That buyer's still priced out.
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