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Leadership 09.22.21

A Spectre Of Back-Charges Challenges Builder Performance

Who will pay for all the variations to original purchase order agreements and deliveries amidst supply chain chaos? Where field challenges roll up to business risks.

Products 09.27.21

The Risk Of Labor Shortages Vs. The Opportunity To Diversify

The rapidly-shrinking construction workforce exposes both a glaring threat and an enormous potential for transformative growth. Can the data drive action?

Technology 07.13.21

Here's A Robot That Solves For Prefab Wall Panel Spray Foam Insulation

Spray-R, a spin off from Chemovator, provides the solution which repeatably, safely, and swiftly applies spray foam insulation in offsite panel facility environments.

Products 11.11.21

Windows For '21 Completions Start Closing: Here's What's Next

A casualty of 2021 supply chain dysfunction -- loyalty -- may be a source of business strain between builders and distributors when options open back up in 2023 and beyond.

Products 09.28.21

'Living With' The Supply Chain Crisis May Be A Last Best Option

For construction supply woes, sellers and buyers choose to go-it-alone and keep close-to-the-vest at their own peril. Transparency and trust work as tools to learn to 'live with' supply disruption.

Leadership 09.15.21

Relinking The Chain: Here's A Key To Restoring The Channel

Introducing our Dream Teamer Ken Pinto, with a solutions-focused Supply Chain MasterClass, aimed at helping builders and partners work through homebuilding's biggest risk factor in late 2021 and beyond.

Products 07.22.21

Plug-And-Play Ducts Deliver Airflow To Building's Digital Age

Eight public homebuilder investors have backed the go-to-market adoption of an innovative HVAC distribution platform that checks multiple boxes as a solution.

Products 10.07.21

Tap The Power Of Unit-Pricing, The Better Path To Cost Control

Here's how 'you can only manage what you can measure" applies in the highly complex, disruption-riddled world of 400 SKUs, 30 different processes, and 18,000 or so separate pieces in a 2,200 square-foot new home.

Technology 09.17.21

How The Tiniest Details In A New Home Could Change Real Estate

Digibilt, a software as a solution platform, could be the missing link to precisely measuring a home's carbon impact. The economic implications range far and wide.

Products 07.07.21

The Great Lumber Lag Of 2021: Here's Why High Prices Stick

A master-class in price stickiness applies not just to dimensional lumber, but to a number of materials and product categories with complex distribution channels.