In case you missed it in the news section of HousingZone, Fiserv and Moody's Analytics are predicting home prices will increase in 365 out of 384…

There's not much doubt where new construction sits these days -- bouncing along the bottom. The remodeling market, on the other hand, is a lot more…

I recently conducted several searches in both residential and commercial businesses in multiple states. The positions ranged from superintendents to…

I am finishing up my September column for Professional Builder based on a list of the 10 biggest myths of Lean Building, and I just wrote about one…

*/ Last week, I wrote about updating plans. The same concept applies to updating elevations. The best elevations are those designed with scale and…

So, they said we needed change. They said it would get worse before it got better. They said unemployment is decreasing. They said the rate of…

A hotspot is a recurring problem, by focusing on the top ranking hotspot with corrective and preventive action they can be reduced or eliminated…

Here are some interesting results from a 2011 survey by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.  % Agree or Strongly Agree As it plans for the…

  Over my 30 years of working with senior leaders, I have seen the good the bad and the very ugly. It seems that any “C’ level person who has the…

Growing up near Detroit, I know that old plans are like old cars —sooner or later they start costing you more money than they are worth. It is…