NBN Online for the week of August 14, 2006

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In This Issue:

Front Page
Regulators Backing Down From Ditch Oversight
Florida’s Hurricane Season a Time to Wait for Home Sales Recovery
Share Nation's Building News With Your Staff. It's Free.
Layouts for Living
Floor Plans: Affordability, Convenience Come to ‘Main Street’
Coast to Coast
Slim Pickings for Real Estate Vultures
Politics & Government
Days Numbered for Senate to Move on Estate Tax Relief
Mortgage Holdings a Sticking Point for GSE Reform Bill
Economics & Finance
Eye on the Economy: Housing Pulls Down Economic Growth
Legal
Free NAHB Moisture Protection Pamphlet for Siding Installers
Register for Sept. 7-8 Construction Law Seminar in San Francisco
Tips
Builder's Tip: Using Sandbags as Concrete-Form Anchors
Business Management
Why You Should Be Concerned About Workplace Harassment
Mobile Office Alarm System Protects Construction Job Sites
BuilderBooks.com: Navigate the Challenges of Land Development
Custom Home Builder of Year Nominations Due Aug. 15
Early Registration for Custom Builder Symposium Ends Soon
Remodelers
Golf Utah for Educated Remodelers Everywhere
Commercial
McGraw-Hill Offers ENR Discount to NAHB Members
Commercial Builders Awards of Excellence Deadline Aug. 18
International
Sign Up for Trade Mission to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Thinking Green, Building Green Down Under
Education
CAPS Designation All Over National News, CBS, CNN
Learn More Before NAHB's Fall Board Meeting
Want to Know More About Designations? Ask an Expert
Education Calendar
Environment
Government Regulators Listen to Builder Suggestions
Green Building
Color Drawing Explains Green Building to Home Buyers
Apply for Green Building Awards
Codes and Standards
NAHB Members Reviewing ICC Code Change Proposals
Workforce housing
Apply for 2006 Workforce Housing Awards
Labor
Workers to Be Trained to Help Rebuild New Orleans
Building Products
USG Recycling Gypsum Scrap and Ceiling Panels
TV
NAHB-Produced Programs on HGTV & DIY This Week
Endowment
Barton Harvey to Give Dunlop Lecture at Harvard
Enter Awards Programs for Community Contributions
Association News
UPS Offers Up to 30% Discount to NAHB Members on Shipping
GM $500 Exclusive Offer for NAHB Members
Find Key Employees Through the NAHB Online Career Center
Fall Board Meets Sept. 13-17 in Salt Lake City
Calendar of Events
NAHB Career Center

Apply for 2006 Workforce Housing Awards

NAHB is now accepting entries for the Innovations in Workforce Housing Awards (IWHA) recognizing outstanding examples of workforce housing communities across the nation that provide decent and affordable homes for nurses, police officers, schoolteachers, retail workers and the like near areas in which they work.

The awards also serve to increase awareness of the workforce housing challenge and the ground-breaking solutions implemented by the housing industry, while encouraging builders, developers and related professionals to incorporate such innovative solutions into their own projects.

“These awards bring national attention to the workforce housing problem and to the creative ways in which builders and developers are increasing the supply of housing that is affordable to working families,” said NAHB President David Pressly.

IWHA is open to builders, architects, designers, developers and land planners nationwide. Communities that have been completed, or in which the first model has been opened or the first unit has been occupied between Jan. 1, 2004 and Oct. 27, 2006, are eligible to enter.

Entries must be postmarked by Oct. 27.

Winning entries will be selected by a panel of builders, multifamily and land development experts and other industry professionals. Winners will be announced at the 2007 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla. in February.

For specific entry guidelines and an entry form, click here.

For more information on the awards, click here; or e-mail Blake Smith at NAHB, or call him at 800-368-5242 x8583.


 

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