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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1154 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:05 pm    Post subject: Residential Tuesday 2008.0930 Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers, Residential Tuesday brings you housing news and analysis weekly in this free newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. "U.S. homebuilders, buffeted by at least $19 billion in losses since 2006, plan to ask Congress to help stop the bleeding. The industry will ask lawmakers to pass a $15,000 tax credit for all homebuyers, replacing a smaller incentive enacted earlier this year that they contend failed to stimulate demand. "'Our members are really hurting,' Jerry Howard, the chief executive officer of the National Association of Home Builders, said in an interview. 'The tax credit passed in July seems to have failed to have sparked interest. We are hearing from high volume and small volume builders that it has had no impact.' "The top 14 homebuilders have seen their market value plunge 69 percent to $27 billion since July 2005, the all-time high for a Standard & Poor's measure of largest home construction companies. The NAHB estimates new single-family home sales will fall 33 percent this year from 2007 and climb 5 percent in 2009 from 2008." 'Hurting' Builders Seek New Tax Credit to Help Market - Bloomberg, 2008.0929 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=aOACx30SXenQ&refer=home Residential Design and Building News ------------------------------------ Big Plan A Fails, so What's B as U.S. House Takes a Holiday? - The Australian, 2008.1001 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24427776-5013565,00.html House Builders Come in from the Cold - Edmonton Journal, 2008.0930 http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=f2bb87f9-782a-4331-868c-470008f42368 Construction Profits Expected to Fall - Victoria Times Colonist, 2008.0930 http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=5970a0ba-38b0-43f6-9d2c-bf380522f9d6 Australia's Home-Building Approvals Declined 3.7% - Bloomberg, 2008.0930 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aKamHMMHftO8&refer=australia Home Building Slumps Further in August - New Zealand Herald, 2008.0930 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10534968 Lenders Withdraw Mortgage Deals - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0930 http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/sep/30/mortgages.property Governor Signs Green Home Building Legislation - MidHudson News, 2008.0929 http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/September08/29/green_build_law-29Sep08.html East Dallas Landmark Finds New Owners and Regains Lost Grandeur - Dallas Morning News, 2008.0929 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/home/hometours/stories/DN-fdluxe_hometour_1007fas.State.Edition1.460c744.html Can't Move? Then Improve - Easier Property, 2008.0929 http://www.easier.com/view/UK_Property_News/General/article-206837.html Carving Out a Family Home and a Studio - New York Times, 2008.0928 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/realestate/28habi.html Scaling Back in Suburbia - New York Times, 2008.0928 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/realestate/28njzo.html A Loan Fit for the Countryside - New York Times, 2008.0928 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/realestate/28mort.html New Georgia Development Suggests a Frontier-Style Mountain Town - Cattanooga Times Free Press, 2008.0928 http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/sep/28/new-georgia-development-suggests-frontier-style-mo/ KB Home Building Smaller Houses to Lift Sagging Sales - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0927 http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-fi-kbhome27-2008sep27,0,810745.story Milton Faces Lawsuit over Demolition of Home in Historic District - Cape Gazette, 2008.0926 http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200809/milnlawsuit092608.html U.K. House Builders Not Inflating Prices - International Herald Tribune, 2008.0926 http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/09/25/business/OUKBS-UK-HOUSEBUILDERS-BRITAIN.php Peace-of-Mind Punch List - Market Watch, 2008.0925 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ten-punch-list-items-assess-soundness/story.aspx?guid=C983C02C-794D-451F-9036-94A22EC34416 In the Penthouse, a True Garden Apartment - New York Times, 2008.0925 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/garden/25roof.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt&oref=slogin Applications and Identity Theft - New York Times, 2008.0925 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/garden/25fix.html Shower Design for Aging in Place - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_1-1.html Customarily, architects, builders, and contractors have designed, specified, and built curbs at shower entrances that require users to pick up their feet and step over and into the shower pan. In some cases, the floor of the shower pan is lower than the floor of the bathroom. Construction Workers Sue Building Materials Holding Corp. - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0924 http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/work/la-fi-homesuit24-2008sep24,0,4543994.story U.K. House Builders to Be Regulated by Code of Conduct - Independent Digital, 2008.0924 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/house-builders-to-be-regulated-by-code-of-conduct-941371.html Drew Wilgus Wins Design Your Dwelling Competition - Davidson News, 2008.0924 http://davidsonnews.net/2008/09/24/davidson-native-wins-home-design-competition/ The Rise - and Fall - of the Bungalow - Independent Digital, 2008.0924 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/the-rise-ndash-and-fall-ndash-of-the-bungalow-939851.html People and Places by Nancy Novitski Thornton Tomasetti in Chicago, Illinois - Leo A Daly in Los Angeles, California - KMD Architects in Winchester, Virginia - Creative Resource Associates and Group 70 International in Honolulu, Hawaii - Foster + Partners in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Hardy McCullah/ MLM Architects in Fort Worth, Texas - Stephen A. Kliment in Ebersberg, Germany - Perkins + Will in Los Angeles, California... ... short stories continue online: http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0924/news_1-1.html Product News - Structural Insulated Roof and Floor Panel from kama http://www.archweek.com/2008/0924/products_update.html ==================================================================== Tools and Downloads -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor this ArchWeek special section and build your brand awareness! http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?080924_notes_tools_sponsor Explore, Validate and Convey Your Design Concepts with 3ds Max(R) Design 2009 Autodesk(R) 3ds Max(R) Design 2009 software enables architects, designers, and visualization specialists to fully explore, validate, and communicate their creative ideas - from concept models to cinema-quality visualizations. 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