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October 1, 2004 PATH Asks: "How Do Production Homebuilders Act?" Study to look at behavior of large production firms The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) kicked off a study on one kind of homebuilder: production builders. Those builders produce more than 500 units per year per region and even more than 5,000 units across the country. Since the post-World War II days of Levitt and Sons, production builders have dramatically shaped the way we build and what we build in America. Increasingly producing the majority of the new housing stock in the United States, production builders have developed scale economies to leverage with their material suppliers, to build efficiently and cost-effectively, and to implement major technological changes through the industry. With these resources, some production builders have not implemented drastic changes in their processes, while others have pushed the envelope in industrializing their construction sites. This context has led PATH to ask important questions: Do production builders have a whole staff that looks out for new techniques and materials? How do they implement change throughout their organization? What are their relationships with consumers, and do they communicate technological information to them? Through this study, PATH seeks to understand how these large firms process, acknowledge, and adopt technological change. Results of this groundbreaking study will be published within one year, but updates will be available throughout on PATHnet. For further information contact: Dr. Carlos Martín Dr. Ted Koebel Content updated on 4/19/2005 |
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