PR August 2003

Without measuring employee performance against benchmarks, you leave the possibility of success to chance.

A bedroom with walk-in closet in a home in Minnetonka, Minn., needed to make the conversion from child's space to work space.

When these Seattle homeowners decided to remodel and expand their second-floor bathroom, they also wanted to create a grander, more contemporary entryway that would not distract from the home's 1950s split entry and long, linear lines.

Low-margin commercial projects - especially for historical renovations - leave little room for error but lots for creativity.

When Neil Peck, president of S.N. Peck Builder in Chicago, took his first Landmark Education forum 20 years ago, he wasn't aware of the impact that course, and the many Landmark forums that followed, would have on his company.

The sad truth is that larger jobs, unfamiliar project types, poorly chosen clients, poor job costing - and the resulting repetitive estimating errors - capped by a poor understanding of how profit is generated, are the root causes of remodeler failure....

Remodelers wanting to use more technology in their business functions can look to these platforms from Foster Remodeling Solutions as examples.

HousingZone.com presents a markup calculator in conjunction with Alan Hanbury's Praying or Planning for Profit? article in Professional Remodeler magazine.

Mike Carden, CGR, CEO of MUI Corp. in Birmingham, Ala., was baffled about why consumers didn't have a means to service what, in most cases, is the largest investment they own, and he came up with a vehicle to change that in his market.

For the past three years, Commonwealth Home Remodelers in Vienna, Va., has offered internships to architects in training who are working toward their license through the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards' Internship Development Prog...