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Can hard-troweling air-entrained concrete lead to delaminations?
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Versetta Stone is a nonstructural stamped concrete veneer that’s installed without mortar
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EuroSlate and EuroShake roofing is made from recycled rubber tires
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Civic groups and non-profits trying to turn Detroit’s dismal housing market around have a relentless enemy: the appraisal process.
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Mustang, Oklahoma (pop. 17,395) has voted down adoption of the 2009 International Codes after a city council member argued that the codes represent an implementation of a United Nations resolution known as “Agenda 21.”
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Small independent builders say they can’t get equal access to land or financing in Florida’s hot housing market.
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South Carolina’s decision not to adopt the 2009 building codes on schedule could result in the loss of favorable insurance rates, a Charleston official says.
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Prices for framing lumber and structural panels (plywood and OSB) have risen dramatically this spring, market watchers report.
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A new “homeowner bill of rights” law in California appears to have cut the state’s foreclosure rate significantly.
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The oil stopped flowing two years ago. Much of the money hasn’t started flowing yet. And the Gulf Coast, some reports say, is still hurting from the effects of BP’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowout.