Building Products and Remodeling

While smart home technology was an interesting new home upgrade option three years ago, new home buyers in most price ranges and locations now expect new homes to come equipped with the ability to control temperatures, lighting, security, and other …

Rapidly changing technologies and new home designs have surprised some industry executives. Designs That Shift Building Material Demand Rapidly changing new home designs have surprised building product company executives who have not been speaking directly with the home building community. …

In this 12-minute podcast interview, John Burns shares some of our research findings that our building product clients receive regularly. The new normal is 1.4–1.5 million annual US housing starts because of: . Overbuilding. We are still recovering from the massive …

At the 2019 International Builders’ Show, we identified five big building product design trends. For additional detail and photo examples, click here. 1. Expanded Internet of Things (IoT) Compatibility. Last year we highlighted IoT technologies as the key that opened …

Three of the biggest surprises at our Housing Design Summit last year were: Significant building products research. How surprised many of our builder, developer, and architect clients were by the level of consumer research and insight conducted by building product …

Labor shortages, supply-chain inefficiencies, and rising material costs consistently top the list of what keeps our clients up at night. We hear these pains expressed every month in our builder and building product industry surveys and can’t escape news headlines …

Todd runs our building products practice, helping building products companies and home builders work together to profitably meet consumer demand. In this podcast, Dean and Todd discuss: How technology will continue to invade the home, with homeowner permission, simplifying life …

Smart home technology may be the hottest trend in home building these days, with new companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon battling for control of your home. Todd Tomalak from our team gave a great overview of the rapid adoption …

At the International Builders’ Show, we identified six new home construction and repair/remodeling design trends. For additional detail and photo examples, click here. 1. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies open the door to whole-home connectivity. Amazon’s Alexa and other personal …