Innovation Building With Bamboo: An Interview With BamCore Would you build a home with bamboo? BamCore says its wall system offers greater strength and sustainability compared to traditional lumber. ...
Multifamily Kid-Friendly Amenities in Luxury Residences Win Over Parents Luxury residential properties across the country are catering to parents who took on more childcare during the pandemic while juggling...
Building Technology Katerra Received $2 Billion in Funding—Why Did It Fail? Katerra emerged as one of the largest and most funded prefab and industrialized construction companies out there, yet it wasn’t enough to...
Building Materials Could Bamboo Be a Viable Alternative to Lumber? Utah-based builder Concord Homes is ditching traditional lumber and opting for bamboo for new-home construction. The reasoning goes farther...
Off-Site Construction This Modular Construction Company Plans to Succeed Where Others Fail A newly launched Berkshire Hathaway-backed modular construction company says it’s taking a new approach to factory-based construction, and...
Off-Site Construction How the Pandemic Will Shape the Future of Off-Site Residential Construction Productivity in home construction lags behind almost every other industry, while inefficiencies and waste hurt profits and growth. Is off-site construction the answer to building homes faster and more affordably and easing current supply a
Building Technology This Uber-Like Platform for Home Building Cuts Construction Time in Half After the 2017 Northern California wildfires, the demand for new construction exceeded all local construction capabilities, leading one...
New-Home Sales Utah Builder Forgoes Bidding Wars, Plans to Sell at Listing Price When Utah-based Goldcrest Homes opened its England Ridge subdivision, the builder didn’t see a need for bidding wars. Instead, it opted to...
Planning + Development Farm Storage Metamorphosizes Into the ‘Caterpillar’ Housing Development During World War II, the U.S. Navy developed a prefab housing structure deemed the Quonset hut. Today, those huts are used for storage on...
Innovation The Downside of 3D Home Printing New communities developed through 3D printing have been making headlines, from a 15 net-zero home community in Rancho Mirage, Calif. to the...
