Spooky Construction Scenes and Creepy Job Site Tales

SGC Horizon Group Director - Principal Tony Mancini previews the lineup of segments for The Weekly, including a lively discussion about transparent estimates, smart tech for older homeowners, and a new product that just might alter production housing as we know it.

How transparent do you need to be when estimating remodeling jobs? Some say totally, some not so much.

Aging in place and smart technology expert Ryan Herd discusses what smart technologies are best suited for homeowners wanting to age in place, along with gaining a deeper understanding of what older adults want and need from a home.

The Haciendas, an experimental production home project by Oaxaca Interests LLC, in Dallas, Tex., uses modern design and unconventional materials for its efficient, single-level floor plans, among other features generally foreign to most production builders.

SGC Horizon Group Publisher Tony Mancini introduces this week's segments:

• Re-thinking your homebuilding marker
• Rethinking your bigging strategy
• and a quick peek at some products you won't see at 2021 IBS

Managing editor James McClister walks us through a rapid-fire look at some of the products that will be unveiled at the not-in-person 2021 International Builders Show.

Rod Cullum, co-founder and CEO of Cullum Homes in Scottsdale, Ariz., talks about how unitized pricing changed his company's business model and its relationship with trade partners and clients.

Sublime Homes CEO Mike Graniczny discusses how his company benefitted from moving its focus from Illinois to Indiana, and how other builders can follow its lead.

SGC Horizon Group Publisher Tony Mancini introduces the three segments for the latest episode of The Weekly

• The eight pillars of success in home building (miss one and you're sunk)
• Do people pay more for good design? Do they even know it when they see it in a house or in their hand? Can you charge more for good home design?
• The world seems to finally be catching up to off-site construction. How to position your business for it.

Editorial Director Denise Dersin talks with industry sage Scott Sedam about the "fragility of good things," and the metrics he advises home builders to use to determine and sustain business success.

Editor-in-Chief Rich Binsacca has a pint with Dennis Steigerwalt, president of the Housing Innovation Alliance to talk about why builders don't embrace off-site construction

... and what they're going to do about it.

PRODUCTS' editor Nigel Maynard chats with an architect and production builder about what classifies as "good design" and how builders can add more of it in the homes they build.