Dallas Builders Association
It’s steadily becoming a woman’s world in the Construction Management program at Collin College. In just four years since Craig Johnson brought his real-world education to the Allen campus of Collin College, the construction program has grown leaps and bounds. This year’s freshman class is 22 percent female — twice the 11 percent national rate…
Business for Dallas-Fort Worth homebuilders has changed drastically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While demand for new housing stock created market conditions that had builders canceling contracts with buyers and cutting out agents, a new report from the National Association of Home Builders shows a steep decline in outlooks for homebuilders in the…
Dallas builders have high hopes that a new program will get them in and out of the city permitting office and back to swinging a hammer in a 24-hour period. The early response to a new program offering “walk-in permits,” set to launch Sept. 1, is a far cry from the highly-criticized permitting debacle that’s…
The Inflation Reduction Act represents the most ambitious climate spending package in U.S. history, but will it fix our energy woes?
It took a village — and a new permitting chief — to make a dent in the backlog of paperwork as Dallas builders try to get their permits processed. But the problem is far from solved, officials said this week. And along the way, builders have shed light on another problem that’s plagued Dallas for…
