Framing News
Outstanding home mortgage debt in the U.S. posted a 0.5 percent increase in the second quarter from the year before, the first year-over-year gain in mortgage debt since 2008.
Labor capacity, or rather, constraints on labor capacity, is now adding to the number of days it takes to build a home in places like Denver, Dallas, and, so some extent, Phoenix and other markets as well.
This video features commentary from the 2014 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards jury. Visit the 2014 Builder's Choice Design Awards and the Custom Home Design Awards for full stories on the winning projects.
Moayed's time-collapsing weapon? Modular construction.
Just because a carpenter has these skills doesn’t necessarily also mean he or she has the rest of what it takes to be a successful Lead Carpenter
Camp Hope provides interim housing, peer mentoring, VA support and pastoral care for our Wounded Warriors, veterans and their families suffering from combat related PTSD
The National Framers Council (NFC) is pleased to announce the release of two new topics on General Jobsite Safety in its collection of FrameSAFE Toolbox Talks.
You probably know how long it takes you to build a house. But you may also wonder how your experience compares to the rest of the industry’s.
Last month I attended Lenox’s 100th anniversary event at the company’s headquarters and factory in East Longmeadow, MA.
There have been encouraging signs that America’s attitude towards those who don’t go to college is changing.
Though apartment industry veterans harbor some doubts about the staying power of their single-family rivals, it seems the for-sale builders that came into the apartment market are here to stay.
Building material dealers, contractors, and specialty firms are gearing up to fight an Obama administration proposal that could force the construction industry to give overtime pay to a huge new subset of its white-collar workforce.
There is an increasing concern from multiple segments of the construction industry on the availability of a skilled workforce, as well as the productivity of the buildings workforce today and into the future.
The National Framers Council (NFC) was created with a primary mission of helping to ensure that all framers leave the jobsite each day in the same health as they arrived in the morning.
MiTek announced today the release of a new iPad and iPhone app for viewing the new USP Structural Connectors 2015-2016 catalog.
