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    Does Your Team Measure Up?

     Photo © Brian BeaugureauIt's easy to understand the impact incorrectly measuring a job can have on production - wasted materials, time and labor speak directly to the bottom...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Personal Education Translates to Business Growth

    When Neil Peck, president of S.N. Peck Builder in Chicago, took his first Landmark Education forum 20 years ago, he wasn't aware of the impact that course, and the many Landmark...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Diversify Your Business by Offering a Maintenance Plan

     This brochure for MUI's Exterior Maintenance Contracts details the scope of work, which examines the exterior from ridge line to ground.Consumers can buy maintenance and...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Aspiring Architects Make Good Design/Build Interns and Employees

     Susan Pierce (second from left) with her current and former interns (from left) Ramona Saldamando, Jonathan Hodge and Laurie TorresFor the past three years, Commonwealth...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    On Site

    After touring the facilities of area homeless shelters, Westhill Inc. of Woodinville, Wash., decided to act as the builder captain for the Playroom Project organized by the Master...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Intranet and Online Estimator Streamline Processes

     Remodelers wanting to use more technology in their business functions can look to these platforms from Foster Remodeling Solutions as examples.David Foster, CR, president...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Business Benefits: Reduced Risk, More Sales, Better Employees

     To improve bathroom ventilation, Entherm installed an isolated fan in this attic (above), with separate intakes in the bathroom ceilings and a pair of relays. In the same...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Accountability: Painful but Necessary

     Kim SweetNow that every other journalist in the country has had a chance to write a Jayson Blair column, it's my turn to take a crack. (Blair is the former New York Times...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    A Love-Hate Relationship

     Wendy JordanI'm so slow to try new technology that it's usually old technology by the time I get with the program. I replaced my previous computer only after I'd had it ...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Classic Details Help Maximize Limited Space

     The center table is, arguably, the room's most impressive illusion. It has a machine screw with a stud mount on the maple side of the table that serves as a place to hang...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Angles Help a Simple Square Roof Gain Grandeur

     The hillside location didn't provide Stone Pillar Remodeling much access on the uphill side, not even for a small tractor. In addition, the hillside had lots of clay earth...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Praying or Planning for Profit?

     Alan HanburyAlthough the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, getting down on your knees doesn't guarantee a profitable outcome. Many of us think that profit is the...
    Aug. 1, 2003

    Markup Calculator

    .rightalign{ text-align: right;} HousingZone.com presents a markup calculator in conjunction with Alan Hanbury's Praying or Planning for Profit? article in Professional Remodeler...
    Aug. 1, 2003