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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.

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