Home Building News

Oct 10, 2008 By: Elena Gontar, Staff Writer The modest second quarter growth rates experienced in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia evaporated in the third quarter, according to a CB Richard Ellis Inc.

Fernando Pages : One of the tenets of green building is sparing resources - not using so much lumber, not using so much concrete, not using so many natural resources in the construction of a house.

London's home construction market is running out of steam according to the latest housing start report.

With two-thirds of 2008 in the books, new home construction continues to pick up the pace across the Morden and Winkler region.

As part of an initiative to jump-start the faltering construction industry, the Michigan Association of Home Builders wants the state to give tax breaks to people who remodel their homes or businesses to ...

ASHEVILLE If you've always dreamed of a timber frame home with exposed beams and floor-to-ceiling windows, get ready to have some serious fantasies.

Eastern Wyoming College students, from left, Nathan Burbach, Brent Fox and Jacob Smith make sure their measurements are accurate for a new home that will be built as part of the construction technology ...

Whether a granddaughter can build a home next to her grandmother's home on Page Road will not be settled by City Council or the planning commission, but voters at the Nov.

South Suburban College recently held a ribbon-cutting and reception for a house that students from the South Suburban College Building Construction Technology program have worked on from start to finish.This ...

The nationwide credit crunch has started to hammer the home-building industry in the Triangle.

U.S. construction spending was unchanged in August as private building slipped to its lowest level in four years and home construction was nudged slightly upwards, a Commerce Department report showed on ...

U.S. homebuilders , buffeted by at least $19 billion in losses since 2006, plan to ask Congress to help stop the bleeding.

Surprisingly, none of the professional contractors had any doubts they could finish the job, although they'd never done it before.

U.S. home builders, buffeted by at least $19 billion in losses since 2006, plan to ask Congress to help stop the bleeding.

Allan Anderson explains how he tests the "tightness" of a house by using a fan in a doorway to monitor the flow of air.

At a recent meeting of the International Code Council a motion was approved to make fire sprinklers mandatory for homes in 2011, a scant 2 years away.

When building a house, ideally, the weather will be perfect, all the materials will arrive on time and intact, and the trades people will be ready and on time.

Mergers are often driven by economic factors, from the desire to liquidate merchandise and property to simply knowing when the time is right to make a substantial profit.

This year's West Coast Green, showstopper, is made from five 40-foot-long shipping containers that once roamed the high seas, packed with washing machines and the like.

Construction of new homes imploded during August in the East Bay and California, a report released Wednesday disclosed, and the ferocity of the decline stunned analysts for a statewide home builders group.