What More Rental Homes Mean for Builders

With the housing market continuing to shrink, more people are renting. Here’s what it means for builders, contractors and product makers. With the typical age of first-time homebuyers at an all-time high of 40 last year and the share of first-time buyers contracting by 50 percent since 2007, it continues to mean more Americans are […]

Outlook for High Point Furniture Market Cautious

With the ongoing slide of furniture and home furnishings sales, the industry will gather later this month with bigger concerns. When the furniture industry meets later this month, starting on April 25th, for its twice-yearly market week in High Point, NC, it will seem to be another case of déjà vu. For at least the […]

AI: We’ll Use It…But We Don’t Trust It

Americans say they are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their everyday lives. But they also say they don’t necessarily like it. A new poll by Quinnipiac University reports that “an increasing number of Americans see more harm than good when it comes to AI’s impact on their daily lives and education and they are divided […]

Floor & Decor Continues to Expand, On Its Way to 500 Locations

The building supply retail chain has opened its first store in the Pittsburgh market, one of 20 new locations planned for this year. The rapidly growing specialty retailer of hard surface flooring and related accessories for homeowners and professionals has opened in the southern Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park. At the start of the year, […]

Denmark’s Tallest Mass Timber Tower Tests Eco-Friendly Building

At 20 stories, the new development also uses a number of other low-carbon high-rise construction techniques. Metropolis magazine, the online and print design and architecture magazine, in reporting on the new mass timber structure, also asks what it calls “one of architecture’s hardest questions: can the high-rise, arguably the most carbon-intensive urban typology, be rethought […]