Builder confidence in the 55+ housing market for single-family homes showed continued improvement in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the same period a year ago.
The American Lumber Standard Committee's (ALSC) Board of Review has approved new design values for the remaining sizes and grades of visually graded Southern Yellow Pine dimension lumber.
The NAHB Design Committee has announced the winning team of its design competition held during IBS. Four teams competed to design a home for Laura Sellinger, a U.S. Air Force veteran who sustained a traumatic brain injury while serving in Iraq.
PrimeSource has entered into a yearlong partnership with Rebuilding Together to provide Grip-Rite products to disaster recovery efforts across the country.
Nashville, Tenn.-based LP Building Products has added a broad range of LP SolidStart I-Joists to its engineered wood product offerings for the European Union.
CertainTeed Corp. integrated its ceilings product line into ecoScorecard and SmartBIM online tools, a move the company says will streamline green building specification and documentation.
