Construction News
The National Association of Hole Builders (NAHB) has local chapters all over the US.It is a place to connect with many of your present and future customers. This search engine will help you find your local association web site.
- Business Journal Magazine (e.g. Dallas Business Journal) has local business magazines in most of the largest Metro areas in the US. In addition to having a great real estate/construction section, most local Journals have e-news letters and RSS feeds. This search engine will help you find the website of your local Business Journal.
- K.Hovnanian reports that new home orders have dropped by 31% over the same quarter a year ago, as expected. The Company will release its 3rd quarter financial reports on 7
- An upcoming phase of the residential construction market adjustment is the foreclosure market. Some people have given their homes to the bank and walked away. How the banks go about bringing these homes back onto the market to sell will impact how many new homes our customer builders will plan to build in the future. Here is a report on that market.
- Building a home to environmentally sound standards is begning to help and sell a new home, but there are conflicting standards, and what makes a house "Green" by one standard may make it less "Green" by another standard.
Regulatory
- I put together a post with links to all 18 Chapters of the NPDES Inspector's manual by the EPA
- The EPA has created the ECHO Database (Environmental Compliance History Online). This a place where you can look up a client's regulatory history on line. It could be a useful tool when qualifying a potential client, or in operations, when preparing to audit a client.
- Alabama permits are called NORs. Cindy has a new posting at Statelinks explaining what unique information they require.
Opportunities
New leads in the Western Region:
New leads in the Central Region: A new mutiple builder development in Madison County, Il.
New leads in the Eastern Region: There were mutiple local enforcement orders in the Easter Region this week.
Paradigm's PIPES
Integrity:
Integrity is the basing of one's actions on an internally consistent framework of principles. Two things impact to the quality of one's integrity.
- Depth of principles
- adherence of each level of the framework to the next level
One is said to have integrity to the extent that everything he does and believes is based on the same core set of values.
-(Wikepedia)
Wikipedia goes on to say that:"While those values may change, it is their consistency with each other and with the person's actions that determine his integrity"
This is NOT true; Persistent adherence to a single set of values defines who we are in the world; Our consistent connection between our values determines our hypocrisy or integrity.
Paradigm's adherence to our consistent values has made it possible for Paradigm to set the pace on Inspection Standards in the Stormwater Industry.
....so how well we stick to our "PIPES" (Our values) during both strong and weak markets holds us together in who we are in the world, as a company.
And so these values do not change for us: Professionalism, Integrity, having a Pioneering Spirit, serving with Excellence, and having a Servant's Heart."The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity." -Proverbs 11:3
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