Back Jens Boche Takes Over Global Management Duties at DIRAK News The shareholders of the DIRAK Group appointed Jens Boche as the Managing Director of DIRAK Holding and DIRAK GmbH, effective since June 20, 2023. Jens Boche, who has been the company’s authorized representative for many years, was chosen based on his proven loyalty and …
Jens Boche Takes Over Management Duties at DIRAK Read More »
Pranav Phatak December 9, 2022 WaterSense Technical Evaluation – Behind the Scenes Overview In February 2021, the U.S. EPA recognized Home Innovation Research Labs as a Home Certifying Organization (HCO) for the WaterSense Labeled Homes Program. In this role, Home Innovation will administer verification and certification for the WaterSense program. Homes earning the WaterSense label …
WaterSense Technical Evaluation – Behind the scenes Read More »
Ed Hudson, MBA May 1, 2020 Post-COVID-19 Market Environment for Construction Products Returning to Full Capacity, but With the Same Product Mix? While in most states home construction has been considered “essential” in our COVID-19-restricted economy, that doesn’t mean that all things have been “business-as-usual.” Quite the contrary. Builders and contractors are reporting that social …
Post-COVID-19 Market Environment for Construction Products Read More »
Ed Hudson, MBA September 20, 2017 Exciting New Upgrades for Annual Builder & Consumer Practices Reports Home Innovation Research Labs has been conducting our annual surveys of both builders and consumers for decades. Over time, we’ve adapted and augmented both the content and the options available to our customers to meet the rapidly changing needs of their …
Exciting New Upgrades for Annual Builder & Consumer Practices Reports Read More »
Ed Hudson, MBA May 1, 2014 Time to Rethink Canada Some U.S. manufacturers of building materials have overlooked Canada as an important part of their market development efforts, instead concentrating on expanding their presence into new U.S. geographies or penetrating deeper into existing markets. This may have been rational, for example, in 2005 when the …
Hayley King December 26, 2014 Delivering Green for Those Defending the Red, White, and Blue In light of the recent approval by Congress of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and specific recognition of the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) in that legislation, it seemed like a good time to discuss how the NGBS …
Delivering Green for Those Defending the Red, White, and Blue Read More »
Michelle Foster September 13, 2012 5 Things You Don’t Know About the National Green Building Standard Lately it seems like I spend a lot of time setting the record straight. At home or at work, doesn’t matter – I have to stop in my tracks and debunk the myths that surround me. Let’s take this …
5 Things You Don’t Know About the National Green Building Standard Read More »
Michelle Foster November 15, 2021 The Who, What, How, When, and Why of the NGBS Green Appeals Process For more than 10 years, homes and buildings have earned NGBS Green certification as proof that the building was designed and constructed to comply with the National Green Building Standard ICC-700 (NGBS). Certification confers myriad benefits to …
The Who, What, How, When, and Why of the NGBS Green Appeals Process Read More »
Jon Violette April 9, 2020 Discrete Choice in Qualitative Research—A Powerful Way to Determine the “Why” of Decision Dynamics (This post was written in collaboration with Cathy Gwynn, a frequent partner with Home Innovation’s market research team.) Most researchers associate discrete choice methodologies, such as Conjoint or MaxDiff, with surveys where the objective is to measure the …
Katie Dorn December 5, 2022 Quick QAP Recap: Winter 2022 This is an ongoing series of blog posts where Cindy Wasser and Katie Dorn share updates on Home Innovation’s green advocacy efforts and opportunities for NGBS Green Partners to get involved. Home Innovation actively advocates for third-party certified, green, affordable housing by providing input for state …