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Ken Pinto: Negotiate Processes, Not Just Prices As Volatility Reigns
In a topsy-turvy materials market, cost control is about more than chasing discounts. Ken Pinto explains why smarter process negotiations—not temporary price breaks—create lasting advantages for builders navigating uncertainty.
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With Cash From Record Profits, LBM Deals Shake Up Rankings, Portend M&A Arms Race
TBD explores what this week's building channel consolidation moves mean for builders and for the building and real estate landscape in the months ahead.
Technology
Fiber-Timber Bamboo Crops Up As A Spruce, Pine, Fir Alternative Of The Future
Bamcore, a Windsor, CA-based fledgling offsite building platform led by former Goldman Sachs executive Hal Hinkle, has a big, bold, scaleable, sustainable, and doable strategic and operational model, whose moment to shine is now.
Leadership
Supply And Destiny: A Housing Crisis Leadership Story
"Can't not," the equivalent of program trading on Wall Street, leads from unsustainable price increases to a breaking point. Solutions, anyone?
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Owed To Plumbers: Waxing Poetic On The Power In Pipes And Wrenches
A WSJ contributing author riffs rhapsodic on plumbers, who "rule[s] supreme atop the pantheon of residential" tradespeople." Here's why.
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Lumber Liquidated: What's Next For The Commodity That Ate Building?
As lumber and engineered wood product prices break all historical price barriers, producers begin to pump capital into mill capacity expansion. Too little too late?
