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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:46 am    Post subject: ArchWeek Residential 2009.0826 Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers, ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. Today headlines are dominated by the sad news of the death of an American statesman. Coming of age in Massachusetts, visiting the U.S. Capitol through the Close-Up program, Ted Kennedy was my first senator. He's been one of our nation's spotlight senators through all the decades since. The liberal reforms he championed for 46 years have certainly made it more complex to run a construction industry business. From OSHA to the ADA, those complicating reforms have also helped make our industry safer, more fair to the construction workers who put facts on the ground, and more inclusive. Griping aside, it's hard to say we are not building better as a result. Other news today is reinforcing the sense that the U.S. economy is bottoming out: New York Times wrote: Sales of new homes surged nearly 10 percent in July from a month earlier, another indicator that the country's long-suffering housing market was starting to turn around. The Commerce Department reported that new-home sales rose 9.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 433,000 last month. The numbers came on the heels of other reports that have showed housing prices rising in many big cities and sales of previously owned homes picking up. Sales, however, were still down 13.4 percent from a year ago. As new-home sales surged in the Northeast and the South, the glut of unsold, newly built homes diminished somewhat. The inventory of homes for sale fell to a seasonally adjusted 271,000, which would take seven and a half months to sell at the current pace. That is a higher supply of homes than normal, but it is down sharply from a 12 months' supply earlier this year. And inventories are falling in part because construction companies are simply not building houses like they were during real estate's boom years. Credit for builders is still tight, and builders are being undercut in many markets by distressed properties like foreclosures and short sales by homeowners who need to sell. A Strong Gain in New-Home Sales in July, New York Times, 2009.0826 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/business/economy/27econ.html Discuss online: http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=zzzzz Residential Design and Building News ------------------------------------ In Athens, Loft-Style Living - New York Times, 2009.0826 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/greathomesanddestinations/26gh-greece.html CRH 1H Net Profit -83%, Pace of Decline Seen Slowing - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0825 http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090825-703533.html Homebuilders Up as Index Shows Higher Home Prices - Forbes, 2009.0825 http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/08/25/business-general-industrials-us-homebuilders-sector-snap_6813538.html Construction Commodity Prices Fall, but Don't Expect a Surge in Projects - Modern Health Care, 2009.0824 http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20090824/SUB/908219982 China Renovates Former Palace Home of Dalai Lamas - Associated Press, 2009.0824 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gl3WQNxexH2BilP7xlgfbo2kNzsgD9A954GO0 Lenders Warned of Home Loan Fraud Losses - Financial Times, 2009.0824 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22fb7858-90e1-11de-bc99-00144feabdc0.html Prefabricated Home Building Begins in Taiwan - CCTV, 2009.0824 http://english.cctv.com/program/cctvnews/20090824/100784.shtml -- * -- Open new doors and gain momentum with new University of Massachusetts Amherst GREEN classes and programs: * Online Green Building Professional Development Series * University Without Walls Bachelors Degree Completion Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship * Classes in green building/ LEED certification, sustainability, geothermal heat pumps, and more. For more information, visit: http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?090819_UMassULearn -- * -- Homebuilders Reconstruct Their Appeal - Asbury Park Press, 2009.0823 http://www.app.com/article/20090823/BUSINESS/908230332/1003/JOHN+DORFMAN++Homebuilders+reconstruct+their+appeal An Uptick for Real Estate Ads Online - New York Times, 2009.0823 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/media/24drill.html A Cul-de-Sac of List Dreams, and New Ones - New York Times, 2009.0823 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23bethone.html NVR Upgraded by Moody's; First Builder Since 2006 - Bloomberg, 2009.0821 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3dGtFsbMTng Faded Glory: Polishing Flint's Jewels - New York Times, 2009.0820 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/garden/20flint.html Worker Falls Four Stories to His Death When a Scaffold Collapses in Brooklyn - New York Times, 2009.0819 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/nyregion/19scaffold.html Grand Teton Visitor Center - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0819 http://www.ArchWeek.com/2009/0819/tools_1-1.html Not housing, but really a spectacular building. Toward a BIM Paradigm - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0819 http://www.ArchWeek.com/2009/0819/tools_1-1.html A systems approach to building information modeling should not be confused with the notion of a single building information model. Implementing BIM does not mean that all of the information about a building must be compiled into a single data file, reside in a single physical location, or be maintained by a single business entity throughout the life cycle of the building. In Japan, a House of Steel - New York Times, 2009.0819 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/greathomesanddestinations/19gh-japan.html Without Housing Relief, Forget about Economic Recovery - Kansas City Star, 2009.0819 http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1393724.html After Merger, Firm Becomes 'Homebuilding's 800-Pound Gorilla' - Detroit Free Press, 2009.0819 http://www.freep.com/article/20090819/BUSINESS04/908190332/1322/Firm-now--homebuilding-s-800-pound-gorilla- Single-Family Home Building Rises for 5th Month - Associated Press, 2009.0818 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gqgh84xd8SadET8bbMATJ_cGAdoAD9A5C5U00 Comstock Homebuilding Eliminates Debt with Foreclosure Deal - Washington Business Journal, 2009.0817 http://- abuse alert -.com/washington/stories/2009/08/17/daily89.html People and Places by Nancy Novitski http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0819/news_1-1.html RDG Planning & Design in Ames, Iowa - Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Morris Architects in Houston, Texas - Foster + Partners, Ferrovial Agrom.n, and Laing O'Rourke in London, England, United Kingdom - Bergman Walls & Associates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... -- * -- Architects & Designers Building in New York City Visit 40 luxury kitchen, bath, and home furnishings showrooms at the Architects & Designers Building in New York City. 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