NBN Online for the week of April 25, 2005

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In This Issue:

Front Page
Builders Testify on Housing Finance System Reform
Will You Be the Next Winner of a Digital Camera?
Builders Make Annual Trek to Capitol Hill
Layouts for Living
Floor Plans: Concrete Custom Home Conquers Unworkable Lot
Coast to Coast
Studies: Gentrification a Boost for Everyone
Politics & Government
Storm Water Rules Contribute to High Housing Costs
Homeownership Tax Credit Bills Introduced
Pombo Pledges Meaningful Endangered Species Reform
Bill Halts Tenant Bankruptcy Abuse
House Acts to Permanently Repeal Estate Tax
Lawmakers Urge Bush to End Lumber Tariffs
Association Health Plan Efforts Move Forward
Economics & Finance
Home Starts Slow in March From 32-Year High
Builders Remain Upbeat in April
Eye on the Economy
VA Secretary Urges Builders to Hire Young Veterans
Tips
Builders’ Tip: Self-Centering Router Base
Business Management
Back Up Your Company Data — Before It's Too Late
Codes and Standards
Members Urged to Help Defeat Costly Code Changes
Builders Show
Builders’ Show Too Big for Atlanta in 2007, 2008
Multifamily
Sen. Corzine Wins Affordable Housing Award
Remodelers
May is National Home Remodeling Month
Construction Safety
Precautions Needed for Working in Hot Weather
Education
Concrete Technologies Tour: Turning Gray Matter Into Green
Education Calendar
Green Building
Employees Learn About Green Building on Earth Day
Environment
Builders Advocate ESA Reform at U.S. Interior Meeting
Women
Distinguish Yourself Through Advanced Technology
Building Systems
Tour to Visit Modular and Panelized Plants
Standard for Residential Concrete Walls Being Developed
Labor
Job Corps Students Participate in NAHB Family Build
Job Corps Grads Fill Labor Needs in Arizona
Building Products
Seminar Examines Cold-Formed Steel Design
Builder's Engineer
Basement Snorkeling
TV
Members Build a Basement on The History Channel
NAHB Production Group Calendar of Shows — This Week
Association news
Totem Pole a ‘Thank You’ for Roadless Rule Efforts
Tsunami Shelter Fund to Support Construction Center, 'Home Builders Care Village'
National Housing Endowment Names Roger Pastore to Board of Trustees, Founding Advocates
Get GM Discount on More Than 80 Vehicles
Calendar of Events

Related Articles

Concrete Technologies Tour: Turning Gray Matter Into Green

Education Calendar

May 4   

Essential Closing Strategies

Youngstown, Ohio

May 5   

Construction Forecast — Spring 2005

Washington, D.C.

May 16-18 

Building for Boomers & Beyond: Seniors Housing Symposium 2005

Chantilly, Va. 

May 22-24

Building Systems Councils Plant Tour

Charlotte, N.C.

June 13-14

Understanding Housing Markets and Consumers (IMR 1)

Bradenton, Fla.

June 13-15 

NAHB/BALA Design Institute for Builders

Denver, Colo. 

June 26-28 

Concrete Technologies Tour

Kansas City, Mo. 

Aug. 9-13 

2005 EOC Seminar

Big Sky, Mont.

Sept. 4-6

Certified New Home Sales Professional (CSP)

Reno, Nev.

Sept. 14-16

House Construction as a Selling Tool

Youngstown, Ohio

Nov. 11-13 

3rd International Conference of the Americas

Mexico City 

Nov. 6-9

2005 Building Systems Councils SHOWCASE

New Orleans, La. 

Nov. 11-13

Custom Builder Symposium

New Orleans, La.

Nov. 13-14

National Conference on Membership

Spokane, Wash.

Nov. 17-19 

2005 State and Local Government Affairs Conference 

Phoenix, Ariz.

2006

 

 

Jan. 11-14

International Builders' Show

Orlando, Fla.

March 12-14

National Green Building Conference

Albuquerque, N.M.


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