August 2019 Monthly Briefing: Labor Shortage? Not if You're a Builder of Choice
This month in Monthly Briefing, Chuck Shinn discusses how builders can become a Builder of Choice. Bulwark Exterminating shares why a newly built home can still have bugs. Professional Builder releases its Top 100 Products list, Bradford White discusses its For the Pro website, and Royal Building Products shares info on its newest siding offering.
Royal Building Products Launches Celect® Canvas Cellular Siding
Royal® Building Products, a Westlake company and leading manufacturer of exterior building products, has announced the launch of Celect® Canvas Cellular Siding, an unpainted version of its industry-leading cellular composite siding.Celect Canvas features the same woodgrain aesthetics and low-maintenance benefits of the prefinished cellular siding offering, plus the ability to customize the color using thousands of exterior vinyl-safe pain...
Managing for Profit, October 2-4, 2019 in Charlotte, NC
Designed to show you the road map to improved profitability, Managing for Profit is an intensive seminar with a focus on management techniques and tools that you can use immediately to achieve improved results across your entire organization.Topics: Setting achievable, profitable goals across the organization.
Determining what profit is reasonable for your organization Using simple managem...
Top 5 Reasons Why Your Newly Built Home Has Bugs
By Bulwark Exterminating The house is fresh, clean, and has that new-home smell. The home owners walk into the open, empty space and see all the possibilities of what’s to come. As they survey the room, though, they are shocked and horrified to see that they are not the first residents! A spider has set up its webby bed in the corner. Ants have found their way to the kitchen sink. The revelation that their home has bugs in it before they&rs...
Helping Contractors Thrive
Bradford White Corporation has spent years honing its relationships with contractors By Joel DavisTo succeed, manufacturers have to do more than build great products—they have to build goodwill, establishing beneficial partnerships with the contractors that buy and install their products. To do this, they look for new ways to provide the tools and resources needed to help their partners build up their own businesses.Bradford White launched ...
Labor Shortage? Not if You're a Builder of Choice™
By Charles C. Shinn Jr., PhDFounder, Shinn Builder PartnershipsMany industry publications are talking about a construction labor shortage. Even though we concur, the proposed solutions are global and require efforts and initiatives outside the operations of the home building company. However, each builder can successfully control and implement certain solutions in their companies to overcome the shortage of labor in the market. We have been coac...
Builder Partnerships Manufacturers Recognized in Professional Builder Top 100 Products List for 2019
Every year, Professional Builder takes the pulse of the industry with the Top 100 Products. These are the building products in which its readers were the most interested during the previous year. For 2019, seven Builder Partnerships manufacturers were tapped for recognition. In alphabetical order, they are:AZEK Building Products for the Porch line of high-performance, capped polymer boards. Delta Faucet for its Tesla Collection of bath faucets. ...
The Art of Purchasing, November 11-13, 2019 in Chicago, IL
How to Improve Profitability with More Effective Purchasing StrategiesEffective purchasing is critical to achieving superior profitability and can increase your bottom line by 5%. The Art of Purchasing seminar (formerly known as Purchasing & Job Costing) is a comprehensive training program designed to help you improve profitability through a more streamlined purchasing department. Our goal is to provide a wide range of tools that you can use ...
Managing for Profit in Atlanta, February 24-26, 2020
How to Achieve Improved Results Across Your Entire OrganizationDesigned to show you the road map to improved profitability, Managing for Profit is an intensive seminar with a focus on management techniques and tools that you can use immediately to achieve improved results across your entire organization.TopicsSetting achievable, profitable goals across the organizationDetermining what profit is reasonable for your organizationUsing simple managem...
