Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The New York Times recently featured a QuietRock customer at 37 Bridge Street in Brooklyn, NY in a piece on the importance of building for acoustical comfort. The builder is installing QuietRock in the party- and demising- wall assemblies for this historic former soap factory being transformed into multifamily housing. Often ...
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Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Greenbuildingadvisor.com, an online green building information resource, has just released a free white paper offering tips for home builders and remodelers on how to distinguish themselves as an authority on green building...
The paper outlines seven steps to gaining an edge in this increasingly competitive marketplace.
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Posted: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Seven ouf of eight dealers who do installed sales believe there will be greater demand for their services, particularly for windows and entry doors, as the economy recovers, responses to a recent ProSales survey indicate.
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Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Mortgage bankers aren't the only people who have made money available to folks who didn't deserve it, Don Magruder notes. Your credit policies could be just as bad.
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Posted: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Breakthrough Technology Delivers Lowest-Cost, Type X Soundproof Drywall
Serious Materials, a leading energy-saving building materials company in the U.S., today launched QuietRock® ES soundproof drywall with EZ-SNAP™ Technology which is 4X easier to score and snap than other brands. QuietRock ES is the lowest-cost, sound-reducing Type ...
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Posted: Monday, November 9, 2009
A Place Apart: Franklin Building Supply concludes that, in its case, the best place to put a lumberyard showroom is nowhere near the lumber.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Residential spending in North America on decking and railing will rise 10% next year to total $3.1 billion, in part because of a revival in the price and market share for wood decking, Principia Partners predicts.
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Posted: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Initiatives by two of the premier green certification schemes are pushing the green building movement into a new, more complicated phase–a phase that could bring new opportunities for LBM dealers.
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Posted: Monday, September 28, 2009
The share of builders reporting problems repaying acquisition, development and construction (AD&C) loans from banks has increased in the past year, survey data collected by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and reported today indicates.
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