If you are considering building a home or if you are in the home design business, you might want to look into a design software program called BIM (building information modeling).   This 3D system can manage a project from start to finish. This design tool has been used successfully and extensively in commercial construction but not as widely in home building, at least not to date.  However, this sentiment ...

When you are nearing retirement and on the brink of some extreme life changes, you take a look around and one of the things you ask yourself is “what am I going to do with all this stuff?” Memories will not let you part with some of it and yet you are at a loss as to what to do with it all. I have been self-employed in the construction business for more than 30 years. Before that, I was climbing high-line t ...