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Digital Dirt--Knights of the Round Firepit
Digital Dirt blog for May 5, 2008.

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Digital Dirt--Foraging for Foreclosures
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Digital Dirt--Behind the Centex Deal
BIG BUILDER News (April 03, 2008)

Digital Dirt--JVs Under Scrutiny
BIG BUILDER News (March 24, 2008)

Digital Dirt--Land Deals in the Works, 3/14
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Digital Dirt: Land Deals In the Works
BIG BUILDER News (March 03, 2008)

Digital Home: Playing in the Bandwidth
High-speed connection is proving to be a sales booster for Sivica Homes' new-home community in Georgia.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (February 01, 2007)

Team Play: Target Practice
The Athena Group mitigates risks and establishes sales process controls with a new customer relationship management system.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (February 01, 2007)

Supply Side: Playing the Blues
Builders are saving big bucks by moving blueprints from a hard copy to the hard drive.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (January 09, 2007)

Digital Home: Flat-Out Awesome!
Plasma and LCD TVs each make gains, giving home buyers a real choice.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (January 09, 2007)

Digital's Direction
The lowdown on the new-home tech trends to keep your eye on in 2007.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (December 01, 2006)

Digital Seduction
Maybe digital amenities are a viable way to attract buyers, but nobody seems to know for sure.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (November 01, 2006)

Green Bean Replaces Black Gold
Soybean derivatives are showing up in building materials as a greener alternative to petrochemicals.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (November 01, 2006)

A House That Does Windows
The popular PC platform routes entertainment and home-control choices into a single-server system.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (October 15, 2006)

To-Go Menu
CIOs strive to link jobsites real-time to offices with mobile communications.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (October 15, 2006)

Go With the Flow
Temperature control advances as new system for practical separate room adjustments finds a market.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (October 01, 2006)

Search Engine
Google brings its high-tech game to a river town, adding jobs and demand for more housing.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (October 01, 2006)

Gains in Green
Higher performance meets standard building methods in the NAHB Research Center's test model house in Maryland.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (September 01, 2006)

Cheaper and Cleaner
One energy-saving product that can save money on a homeowner's utility bill.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (August 01, 2006)

Techno Support: E.V.A.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (August 01, 2006)

Seal the Deal
Insulation system offers easy to install structures that lock in energy-saving, indoor climate management.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (July 01, 2006)

Picture Perfect: Building Media
BIG BUILDER Magazine (July 01, 2006)

Lighting Strikes
As unit volumes slow, a buyer's market may hasten the adoption of digital amenitization.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (June 01, 2006)

The Laptop Life
Lennar introduces home buyers to whole-house audio, powered by Apple.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (May 15, 2006)

Vanity by Volume
Cole taps into a mother lode of demand by niching bathroom designs to fit floorplans.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (May 15, 2006)

Closer to Home
Village Homes of Colorado makes a good case for taking digital sales and installation in-house.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (May 01, 2006)

Schedule Master: Anderson Homes
BIG BUILDER Magazine (May 01, 2006)

Digital Chain
Just like materials and household appliances, digital's inroads in new homes can heighten value position.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (May 01, 2006)

Internet's Embrace
With more buyers beginning their new home search online, builders and developers shift e-marketing efforts into high gear.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (May 01, 2006)

Sounding Off
A whole-house audio household can go about its quiet business . . . even if little brother is watching.
BIG BUILDER Magazine (April 15, 2006)

Green House Effect
As builders adopt earth-friendlier building and neighborhood initiatives, suppliers start to hear an “eco.”
BIG BUILDER Magazine (April 15, 2006)

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