Lifetime
Builder
As a progressive home
builder in Southern Ontario, a former member of the OHBA Technical Committee
for 13 years and the new president of the Canadian Home Builders' Association,
David Wassmansdorf is a second-generation builder who has dedicated his career
to the pursuit of better homes.
Spring
selling season should be a good one
The preconditions are in place for another good spring selling season. While
new and existing home sales are expected to edge lower from last year's record-setting
pace, 2005 will probably still rank as one of the best in the past 10 years.
Outlook
sees starts slowing through 2006
New home building
in Canada will slow in 2005 from the 17-year high of a year earlier, according
to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Total starts are now forecast to reach 216,300 units this year.
Tool
Time testing comes to Tool Talk
By Jon Eakes
Once a year I get the opportunity to call up all the power tool manufacturers
and ask them to send me one - only one - of their tools that would knock the
socks off of a contractor audience...
"Building is cool"
When British Columbia's
Industry Training Authority set targets for enrollment in trades training
in March 2004, the agency expected 30,000 students would be in apprentice
programs within three years. Instead, ten months into the program, enrollment had nearly surpassed the
three-year target.
Retrofitting Siding
A range of exterior cladding
products is convincing homeowners and renovators to experiment when replacing
vinyl siding or upgrading a home's exterior. At the same time, vinyl siding
manufacturers are introducing new materials that can improve performance and
regain market share...
The
new ICFs
Since their introduction
a decade ago, insulated concrete forms have proved popular with home builders
right across Canada, with particular take-up in Atlantic Canada and in the
EnerGuide homes being built in Ontario.
Canada
Wonder Windows
It
was a successful public relations event that also showed how far window security
research has come. This winter in Vancouver, a stack of bills - if all real,
worth $3 million - were packed behind two panes of glass coated with a new
Trim Line security glazing film...