Simpson Strong-Tie Introduces Dual-Purpose AHEP Connector for Wood and Cold-Formed-Steel Truss Applications • Don’t Diss Small Business • Fed Board Survey Says Banks Are Loosening Up Credit • Fed’s Evans: Economy In ‘Extremely Modest’ Recovery • More People Say Manufactured Housing the Way to Go • Modular Home Manufacturer Adds Fire Sprinklers to Options List • 2010 Final Action Committee Hearing Schedule • Results of the 2010 International Green Construction Code Public Comment Hearing • SBCA Michigan Presentation for Code Officials • Meritage Homes Community Makes Green Features Standard • 5 Marketing Tasks You Didn’t Know You Could Automate • For Workers Who Find Jobs, Lower Wages • Steel Price Volatility to Remain in the Short Term • Pine Beetles' March Across B.C. Is a Catastrophe in Slow Motion • Federal Reserve Cracks Down on Mortgage Fees • New iPhone App Sends Real-Time Alerts When Airfares Drop • Home Builders Not Driving Economic Recovery • Golf Tournament Keeps Western Component Manufacturers Association Swinging • Chicago Plans $4B Urban Village to Begin 2012 • 2010 Apartment Leasup Season Surprisingly Successful • New Web Site Catalogs Eco-Certifications • Existing-Home Sales Tumble 27.2% in July • New Home Sales Rate Falls 12.4% in July • Materials Tested for Building Hurricane-Proof Safe Rooms • Hurricane Katrina Five Years Later: Gulf Coast Building Codes Still Inadequate • Survey: Consumer Interest in Green Homes Declines • LBM Sales Up, But at Shrinking Margins in Southern Atlantic Coast States • Myrick Named CEO of ProBuild, Says Strategy Remains Unchanged • 84: We'll Downsize Further If We Don't Get Loan Refinanced • SBCA - Lumber Industry Executive Meeting September 7 & 8 •