Mobile sales technologies can turn go-betweens into top sales people. For most lumber and building materials (LBM) dealers and distributors, their outside sales people are critical to the success of their company. As the company’s eyes and ears on jobsites, outside sales people often find opportunities and foster the company’s relationships with key contractors and builders, architects and other construction supply companies.
Costs of Running Outdated Software
Learn how the Epicor software solutions can help LBM businesses gain actionable data, improve workflow, streamline delivery, and offer superior customer service.
Sustainability in Practice: 2030 and Beyond
Take a deeper dive with industry experts on their latest sustainable design projects and how they are leading the way to net zero.
The AE Firm Maturity Index: A Roadmap to Sustainable Growth
This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. Is your architecture firm operating at peak efficiency, or are you constantly putting out fires? Many firms struggle with inconsistent business development, project bottlenecks, financial uncertainty, and disorganized operations—often without realizing the root cause is a lack of business maturity.
In this webinar, gain a clear understanding of where your firm stands today and, more importantly, the specific steps you can take to level up your business processes, improve efficiency, and drive sustainable profitability. We explore practical, real-world strategies for moving from reactive to proactive firm management, ensuring you’re not just delivering great designs, but also running a thriving, resilient business. Whether you’re a principal, partner, or senior leader in an architecture firm, this session will equip you with the actionable insights needed to build a more predictable, scalable, and profitable practice.
Forging the Path to Carbon Neutral Building
This paper breaks down the benefits and best practices to building carbon neutral homes giving insight into the future of homebuilding. See what Thrive Home Builders has learned on their journey to carbon neutral and how it has helped their business prosper.
Taking Your Business to the Next Level with the James Hardie™ ALLIANCE
Learn more about how you can strengthen your business. The James Hardie™ ALLIANCE provides a complete suite of reputation-building tools, including rewards that help you reinvest in your business, expert training that sharpens your team’s skills, and access to better leads – homeowners who value quality.
Bringing Manufacturing Home — and What It Means for U.S. Builders
Building professionals, as well as their clients, benefit from smart supply chain management, which is critical for controlling costs, keeping on schedule and project success. This video explores the importance of making educated decisions regarding the distributors you use for your business.
AI and the Future of Architecture & Engineering: What Comes Next — and How to Prepare
This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. Artificial intelligence is moving beyond isolated tools and generative outputs. The next phase is agentic: systems that reason across data, coordinate work, and act alongside human teams. This transformation will be both beneficial and disruptive. Productivity will increase. Many new roles will emerge. Expectations will change.
For architecture and engineering firms, this shift reshapes the entire project lifecycle: planning, staffing, forecasting, design coordination, risk detection, and delivery. AI is becoming the connective layer across disciplines, while robotics and new delivery technologies close long-standing gaps between design and construction.
In this session, we take a practical, wide-angle view of what an AI-enabled, agentic A&E firm could look like. We will discuss specific products, real-world applications, and emerging platforms, not to promote tools, but to ground the conversation in practical reality. The focus is on how AI reshapes workflows, roles, decision-making, and firm structure and how to prepare intentionally.
Outdated Land Intelligence is Costing Homebuilders Billions
The homebuilding industry has seen rapid innovation, but one area remains outdated: land acquisition. Utilizing tools that integrate zoning, infrastructure, transaction history and property data builders can reduce acquisition timelines and make more informed decisions.
Marketing to Hearts, Not Businesses
Marketing has never been more complex. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, marketing needs to be more than selling products or services—it's about connecting with people on another level. Today's business customers increasingly bring their emotions, desires, and unique perspectives into the workplace. In this white paper, we'll explore why marketing to hearts, not businesses, is crucial for success in the B2B realm, especially with the rise of millennial buyers.