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At a recent meeting of the International Code Council a motion was approved to make fire sprinklers mandatory for homes in 2011, a scant 2 years away.

Mergers are often driven by economic factors, from the desire to liquidate merchandise and property to simply knowing when the time is right to make a substantial profit.

This year’s West Coast Green, showstopper, is made from five 40-foot-long shipping containers that once roamed the high seas, packed with washing machines and the like.

Construction of new homes imploded during August in the East Bay and California, a report released Wednesday disclosed, and the ferocity of the decline stunned analysts for a statewide home builders group.

Home builders had plenty of time on their hands in August when they pulled just 76 permits to build homes in the Albuquerque metro market.

The nation’s mortgage mess isn’t just hitting home buyers, but also home builders.

The Texas Residential Construction Commission should be abolished because it is ineffective and shields homebuilders from liability for shoddy work, activists said Tuesday, echoing a recent state report.

Residential construction across the state continues to fall. According to the Intermountain Multiple Listing Service, in August of 2007, there were more than 2,200 newly constructed homes on the market in Ada …

Ray Southards cuts short studs while building a new home on Carvo Road Wednesday, September 17, 2008.

The total was down from 19 in July, and below the previous low mark of nine in June.