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Build-Cycle Front-End Vendors In Line Of Fire As Builders Cut Starts

Builders' efforts to bring costs down to the new post-correction floor on units and revenue mean harder negotiations on the land development, pre-construction, and rough trades for lower 2023 pricing.

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Heroes, Honored And Unsung, Celebrate Culture Of Giving Back

A Drees Homes Operation Coming Home project in Durham, N.C., takes its place among the counted and uncounted ventures of epic commitment, investment, and devotion to honoring those who serve and sacrifice to keep us free.

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Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

Listening lowers costs. Sounds trite perhaps, but I don’t care. It’s one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my career. Subcontractors are a homebuilder's front-line operations team.

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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.