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Friday, 10 February 2006 |
New home buyers and builders bicker about leaky roofs, cracked patios and other building defects.
Still, about 15 percent of all new homes have at least two significant defects, said Alan Mooney, PE, president of Criterium Engineers, an engineering firm with offices in 35 states. Mooney came to this conclusion after surveying his firm's engineers last year. "That's pretty significant," ...According to the survey, 23 percent of all new homes have problems with window and door installation, while 21 percent of new homes have roof problems and 18 percent have framing inadequacies. The consequence of these construction defects is, four times out of five, water damage. |
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Big Builder Getting Bigger |
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Sunday, 05 February 2006 |
Small housing firms are being bought up by giant builders
While America's automakers struggle against a sliding market share, major U.S. homebuilders are getting bigger...The leader in the purchases has been Florida-based Lennar, which has bought about 23 firms, according to a study released this month at the industry's annual conference. Close behind Lennar is Fort Worth, Texas-based D.R. Horton, with 17 mergers and acquisitions...The string of purchases appears to be profitable for big builders. Their overall profits have more than doubled in the past 10 years. |
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Atlanta Journal-Constitutions -Shortcuts short homeowners |
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
Housing shortcuts short homeowners
When some contractors work at breakneck speed to meet demand while juggling several projects, mistakes happen. Shortcuts get taken. Quality plummets...many companies use these guys they pick up on the corner. They’re amateurs, and it’s detrimental to the industry... |
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Home Builder Money, Source of Influence |
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Thursday, 19 January 2006 |
Home Builder Campaign Contributions
...the group has been actively lobbying on so-called smart growth issues. Home builders want Congress to pass environmental regulations they believe are favorable to the industry, including a rollback of some portions of the Clean Air Act and other notable regulations. |
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KVBC - Inspecting City Inspectors |
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Sunday, 15 January 2006 |
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KVBC Investigates
Keeping a careful eye on construction, that's what homeowners rely on building inspectors to do. But homeowners who have to sue their builders over defects say they're not getting the protection they expected. News 3 Investigator Darcy Spears has been inspecting the inspectors and reveals information the city doesn't want you to know. |
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New York-Construction Defect in York County Juticial Center |
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Monday, 02 January 2006 |
$222K just to look
The county will pay an engineering firm up to $222,000 to design and oversee the process of fixing leaky windows at the York County Judicial Center. |
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KPRC Chan.2 Troubleshooters Report |
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
Made-To-Order Home Missing Something Very Important
A Houston-area woman's dream of a new home for the holidays is dashed when a typo causes a change in her floor plan, the KPRC Local 2 Troubleshooters report. |
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Licensed, bonded and unaccountable |
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Thursday, 08 December 2005 |
The Oregon Construction Contractors Board fails to discipline bad
The board has done little as contractors avoided nearly half the damages ordered by the agency. During the past 10 years, the board awarded some $55 million to homeowners, suppliers and subcontractors, but only about $28 million was paid, CCB records show. Homeowners stand the best chance of collecting, but The Oregonian's analysis shows that many end up like Stuart, who won board-ordered damages of $364,000 but has been paid zilch. |
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Oregonian Editorial- Contractor License Needs Teeth |
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Thursday, 08 December 2005 |
Contractors board needs some teeth
It's too easy to get a contracting license in Oregon, and the industry-dominated regulatory system is too lax - Getting a barber's license requires 1,100 hours of training; getting a contractor's license requires only 16 hours of classes, followed by a test. And that's just the least of Oregon's problem with its alarmingly lax system of qualifying and policing its building contractors. In a front-page report Sunday, Jeff Manning of The Oregonian described how the industry-dominated Oregon Construction Contractors Board oversees a regulatory operation in which: Contractors skate by without paying millions of dollars in board-ordered damages to aggrieved homeowners. |
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Washington Post - Builders suspected of deceit on levees |
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Thursday, 03 November 2005 |
POSSIBLE NEW REASON FOR SOME NEW ORLEANS FLOODING
WASHINGTON - Investigators yesterday added a possible new explanation for some of the flooding that devastated New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina: deliberate misconduct by contractors who may have skimped on construction materials in building the city's floodwalls and levees. "What we have right now are stories of malfeasance and some field evidence that seems to correlate with those stories," said Raymond B. Seed, leader of one of three independent teams of experts investigating why the levees failed. |
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Texas Watch Newsletter - Hurricans,Insurance & Abusive Practices |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
Housing Issues: Quarterly Update: Holding Wrongdoers Accountable
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, thousands of families turned to their insurance companies for help. At least one company -- Allstate -- has turned their backs on their policyholders by engaging in abusive practices. Texas Watch has helped bring to light a number of these abuses, leading to action by state regulators and the Attorney General. |
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