Got to spend some time over at the Bosch headquarters yesterday. To show off the toughness of their new line of drills, they dropped two of them 532…

A tool referred to as the “Quality Life Cycle” provides a strategic mechanism to chart and sustain quality while proactively countering shortcomings…

All the remodelers out there who thought that the EPA RRP lead paint rules weren’t going to be enforced may want to think again. The EPA announced in…

There are many ways to determine how successful a process or project is. These methods normally involve detailed metrics and may include cycle-time…

Lead paint continues to be getting a lot of buzz, what with the NAHB's lawsuit against EPA, the first fine coming down last week and more. Here's my…

At a time when the housing industry is facing a severe glut of inventory, depressed real-estate values, tighter lending standards, and a lethargic…

As the broad range of topics discussed in this blog clearly shows, Quality Management involves a wide range of issues. Perhaps the National Housing…

POSTED 5/19/2011 So for all those remodelers who thought there was no reason to follow the EPA's lead RRP rules? Yeah, you might want to think about…

We all have a long list of improvement projects we would like to work on. The problem is picking which to focus on now and which to leave until later…

While we’ve spent the better part of the past four years analyzing just how dramatically the housing market has changed during the great bubble burst…