Feature Articles
Easy Living Low Maintenance Housing After decades of lawn care, shoveling snow and all the work involved with taking care of a larger property, it is no wonder that many people are flocking to low maintenance housing. In a traditional low maintenance housing...
Feature Articles
The Inflation Battle May be Down to Housing and Shelter. For almost two years, prices in the U.S. have been rising faster than normal. As a result, interest rates have gone much higher, much faster than normal. As fall 2023 unfolds, the level of inflation has cooled,...
Builder Profile
Building a Reputation, Block by Block Jack Pellis, the owner of Pellis Construction, grew up with a hammer in one hand and blueprints in the other. This genetic predisposition to the construction industry began with his grandfather, who went to Carnegie Tech to learn...
Project Profile
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous” opined the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Just imagine the pristine beauty of gently rolling land dotted with regal oaks and other, numerous trees reaching to the banks of the Allegheny River early...
Feature Articles
In January, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced that single-family home production was off to a sluggish start in 2023. And while that caused some concern in the industry—especially as mortgage rates and construction costs were on the rise—there...
