Articles
April 2010
Best
Practices for Using Energy Efficiency as a Competitive
Advantage
Construction guys as sales agents? Keeping a homebuyer engaged
for 3 hours? 1-hour realtor training sessions? Selling more value
for more money in this economy? Earlier this month, Alliance
members John Friesenhahn of Imagine Homes, Mike Nimon of
Wathen-Castanos Hybrid Homes, and Michael Dickens and Brad Oberg of
IBACOS participated in a panel discussion entitled "How to Use
Energy-Efficiency as a Competitive Advantage" through Builder
Online's Presidential Seminar Series. Read more.
March 2010
"Integrated Design Process" or "Lean
Design" - You say Tomato...
Blog by Duncan Prahl
I firmly believe that the overall operational profitability of a
company building high performance homes can be as good as or better
than a company building simply to code. One way to help pay for
higher performance strategies and get the most bang for the buck is
through Integrated Design Process (IDP). Read
more.