The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard has released a report showing that the remodeling industry is beginning to recover from the worst economic downturn since the 1960s. Homeowners who deferred maintenance and improvements during the recession may soon start to spend more freely. Lower household mobility in the wake of the housing market […]
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TwinCities.com: Jeni Christopher really digs heavy machinery. How much? Christopher, a St. Paul mother of two young children, passed up a last-minute pedicure and manicure invite from a friend to instead run a 19-ton, 115-horsepower excavator on a recent rainy Saturday afternoon – all for “fun and the experience.” “Maybe that’s the tomboy in me,”
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Normally, when rain water lands on concrete, it pools or runs downhill until it reaches a storm drain that then pipes the water far away from the site of the initial downpour. This has a negative impact on the local groundwater, since rain is the primary way that groundwater stocks are replenished. A new concrete
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Whether you own a store that is in need of a wine isle makeover or you want to turn your basement into a small cellar for your collections, with Wine Cellar Innovations the only limits are as far as your imagination. Originally known as Deckebach Construction & Remodeling, the business was launched in 1977. In
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A Southern California homebuilder is now building houses with a smaller home nested inside of the larger one. Lennar designers and researchers and an independent architect developed the floor plans this year to respond to the doubling-up trend that has affected more than 1 in 5 U.S. households. Executives with the Miami-based home building titan
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TechCrunch: Here’s just a short list of some things that will transformed in the next few years as the iPad delivers computing to the construction site: Adios, blueprints: The first thing that will disappear is paper. It’s expensive, always out-of-date, and with this new push for green buildings, The Owners are asking their contractors to
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Yahoo News: An engineering professor, Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University of Southern California, is really thinking big: He has figured out a way to build housing with a giant 3D printer. Here’s how it would work, according to the blog Pop Sci. The apparatus, instead of being the size of your typical laser printer, would
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Carpe Diem: In another sign of housing market recovery, framing lumber prices have been rising lately and reached $347 per 1,000 board feet last week, which was the highest level since early May 2010 (see blue line in chart). And except for a sharp, temporary spike in lumber prices for about four weeks in April-May
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Cassandra Daily: Lowe’s Home Improvement recently launched Iris, a cloud-based “smart home†system for mobile device owners who want to monitor their homes’ security. The Iris Smart Hub’s sensors track the motion of doors and windows, thermostat temperature, and smart plugs that indicate when an appliance needs to be turned on or off. A mobile
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Yesterday I mentioned that the Pirate Bay is now offering physical items for download. The digital files can be loaded into 3D printers and fabricated plastic. Now, a professor from the University of Southern California wants to do for houses what the Pirate Bay is doing for smaller physical items. He wants to print houses
