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JLC's annual pick of products designed to help you work faster, better, and smarter.
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Job-site theft on the rise, lumber trade deadlock, hybrid glulam, DOE reintroduces SEER-13 efficiency standard, protecting frogs in California
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Wood and steel prices, prosecuting unintentional code violations, slimmed-down energy bill, using tires in septic fields
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Mold and technique, necessity of building paper, flashlight recommendation
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Lumber trade standoff, builder's contract gag clause causes controversy, simpler energy code in the works, gravel pumping may be in your future
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Q. We see ourselves as quality builders. We frame everything 16 inches on-center, including roof trusses. Most visitors to our job sites feel that this is overkill and that we're wasting the customer's money. Is putting trusses 16 inches on-center with 5/
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In The News
Quality control probe targets builders, opponents slow I-Code advance, aerial photos nail wetland violators
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Are you charging what your work is worth? Seven veteran builders tell how they learned to stop undercharging and get serious about turning a profit.
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New ventilation standard, economics of OSB prices, ICFs resist test blasts, after the California fires, green building products
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Haven Mavens
When Buz Hoffman finally signed on the dotted line to make his company a strategic partner with Del Webb, the leader in active adult housing, he could barely contain his joy. Del Webb wants to create new business models, expand its brands, build out existing properties faster, and introduce new...