Home Reno Will Drive Builder Market for 2025

Whatever happens with mortgage rates, it will be existing homeowners renovating their homes that will be the big surge next year. The builder market may still be waiting for an expected reduction in interest rates to drive the new housing market but in the meantime, a new report is suggesting the renovation and home improvement […]

Here’s What Six Homebuilders Are Saying about the Houses of 2045

Predicting the future is tough but a select group of builders is making big predictions about what houses will look like in 20 years. If you grew up on the Jetsons – or maybe Blade Runner or the Back to the Future movies – there were all sorts of crazy predictions about the kinds of […]

Registration Opens for 2025 Mass Timber Conference

As the mass timber movement continues to gain momentum next year’s conference is already well into preparation. It’s the largest gathering in the world for the entire mass timber sector, focusing on the supply chain for the construction method gaining increased popularity in the U.S. and around the world. Now in its ninth year, the […]

Home Depot Defends Corporate Work-in-Store Mandate

When the giant home improvement chain told its corporate staff they need to work shifts in its stores, it set off a controversy. It wasn’t the first big company to do so but Home Depot’s renewed policy requiring all corporate employees to work an eight-hour shift in one of its stores every quarter has met […]

SonicAire Debuts New Dust Control Fan Line

The new fans are the “first and only to tackle combustible dust in CIID1 Environments” the company says. “Industries grappling with the ever-present danger of combustible dust now have a powerful ally,” SonicAire says in introducing the latest models to its Extreme Series of fans. These new fans mark a significant leap in safeguarding environments […]