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Location Kiawah Island, South Carolina...
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Eco Custom Homes builds high-performance custom estates in Atlanta using sustainable materials and designs. Company president and founder, Jeff Dinkle, started Eco Custom Homes after becoming interested in Green building principles following courses he to...
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Vicky Ranney is as much interested in building community as she is in building homes. ...
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In 2005, Matt and Tina Ford launched Shade House Development with a goal to build multifamily housing in Houston that incorporates innovative architecture with environmentally friendly and efficient designs. But more than that, as evident with their first...
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Situated at the mouth of a river with many waterfalls, Winooski, Vermont, had been a productive wool mill town at the turn of the 20th century. Today, the small Burlington suburb is holding onto some of its historic roots as it grows its housing market in...
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Milwaukee, Wis.-based Zilber Ltd. is known for not doing anything halfway. Which is why when they decided to do an experiment in Green construction, they created a state-of-the-art living environment outfitted with almost every sustainable feature imagina...
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When velocity is down, savvy builders and contractors focus on results, like those from high-end, profitable projects that solicit oohs! and ahs! These are the type of kitchens and baths that make homebuyers drool. And whether your client is a new hom...
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In this ever-changing and evolving industry, many builders find it necessary to learn new methods, develop additional skills, or acquire professional designations to thrive. Thankfully, several existing and new education programs are available to builder...
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Over the past three decades, BW Creative Wood Industries Ltd has grown to be one of the leading manufacturers of premium railing systems, components and accessories in the world....
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Today's housing market is challenging even for the most seasoned industry veterans, causing professionals in nearly every segment to rethink the way they build, sell, market-even the way they do business. The time is ripe for radical ideas, and there's no...
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HELP! My land parcel is losing value: by the year ... by the month ... by the day and by the hour. After all this hard work and effort to bring it up to its current value, the market evaporated: What do I do now?...
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All too often, developers and builders think about tomorrow rather than the here and now when placing a valuation on land and current development targets. A piece of land holds different values to different people, but what a parcel is worth in current v...
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Current industry trends in high growth areas show that more municipalities are likely to allow developers to go vertical and create high-rise and high-density projects that generally wouldn't have been approved five or more years ago. While the municipali...
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Selling a piece of land can be as easy or as hard as you make it. In this month's column I'd like to take a look at a few quick and easy marketing methods implemented throughout the marketing world and apply them specifically to selling your land parcel....
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Bandon Dunes Case Study...
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Post-tensioned (PT) concrete has grown exponentially in the residential market over the last decade. More than half of all PT strand produced in North America is now used on residential projects. Post-tensioning is a highly efficient structural system tha...
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Low-impact development and all that encompasses can be easily summed up in two words: water quality. At least that's the goal. For the Green-minded builder, techniques are evolving to help him or her reach it....
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No question about it: The Green movement is sparking innovation among manufacturers, including manufacturers of conventional products that builders use all the time....
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Photovoltaic (PV) solar is the supermodel of the sustainable-energy scene, walking the rooftop runways and flaunting its eco-swagger to the world. But like any popular beauty, PV solar owes its success to a team of designers, craftsmen and marketing maven...
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When Mike O'Brien decided to build a home from scratch for the first and only time, he already knew he wanted a carbon-neutral house. Given the fierce demand for close-in housing in Portland (Ore.), O'Brien figured he could try out some innovations in his...
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