Architecture
'Value Engineering' 2023-Style Adds Real Value As It Cuts Cost
Value engineering needs a reset to satisfy both the business requirements to produce homes profitably in trickier times, and to win over customers whose discrimination and hesitation guards may go up at any moment.
Land
Beyond The 'What-Inning-Is-It?' Question: 2024-'25 Land-Spend
To feed the machine, public, private, large, medium, or small builders need lots out ahead of them. To keep that machine hungry, builders need those lots to pencil in an environment that's getting tougher and tougher for a larger and larger portion of would-be home buyers.
Land
Grid Block: How A Transformer Shortage Impacts Affordability
Grand Oak Builders president and CEO Dave Erickson lays out the domino effect of an acute shortage of distribution transformers needed to bring new homes and communities onto the grid.
Leadership
Trailblazers '23: Inherent Aims To Vertically-Integrate Solutions
Consider Inherent's 3-year life span, so far, as its prototype development for a system that would both lower barriers to homeownership, and raise the capability among local workers, area businesses, and infrastructure to develop, build, and sustain viable households in vibrant neighborhoods.
Leadership
Innovators Break Down Barriers; They Also Lift Up Our Resolve
A rare dynamic – of both lowering the barriers to change, and raising the will, skill, and resolve of people – is at the heart of Episode 4 of Ivory Innovations' House Party podcast, featuring a probing interview with Aishatu Yusuf, VP of Innovation Programs at Impact Justice.
