New Products Compact Home Products for Space Savings These home products offer powerful performance in a small footprint
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Building Science An Introduction to the Zero Energy Ready Home Program The nation’s most rigorous federal label for new homes has set its sights even higher. Late in 2022, the US Department of Energy's (DOE’s)...
New Products NEW PRODUCTS AND INSIGHTS: February Keeping up with all the new residential building products hitting the market as well as all the changes happening around the industry is a...
Building Science TROUBLE-FREE STUCCO OVERHANGS With many types of cladding, the intersections of walls and horizontal surfaces like soffits or penetrations such as window or garage door...
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Market Insights What Chat GPT Means for Building Product Brands By now, just about everybody’s heard about ChatGPT. If you haven’t, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial...
Market Insights The Top 10 Tile Trends of 2023 In anticipation of this year’s Coverings, North America’s largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference, Ceramics of Italy,...
Market Insights After Four Months of Declines, Building Materials Prices Rose Gradually in January After falling for four consecutive months, the producer price index (PPI) for building materials fell 0.9% in January 2023 (not seasonally...
New Products 5 Standout Energy-Efficient Products from IBS 2023 At the 2023 International Builders' Show, thousands of profesionals came together to explore and discuss the latest trends and products in...