John McManus

1 month ago | thebuildersdaily.com | John McManus

The High Cost of Bad Data: How Homebuilders Can No Longer Afford to Get It WrongMargins are the lifeblood of homebuilding businesses, but today, they’re stretched thinner than ever. High borrowing costs, supply chain volatility, and shifting regulatory policies already weigh on homebuilders’ ability to keep operations profitable. But bad data poses an even more insidious threat to builders’ bottom lines.

1 month ago | thebuildersdaily.com | John McManus

A perfect storm of high home prices, rising mortgage rates, and fresh tariff threats is adding weight to an already strained housing market. For homebuilders, the ability to compress design, development, and construction cycles has become more than a competitive advantage—it’s a necessity. The challenges of building compound exponentially with complexity,” says Michael Bergin, co-founder and Special Projects leader at Higharc.

1 month ago | thebuildersdaily.com | John McManus

Many of us have a mental picture when we think of a housing innovator. Maybe it's a Silicon Valley engineer who cut their teeth in the automation-heavy factories of Tesla or Amazon, bringing a software-first approach to a notoriously hands-on industry. That’s often the case. But not this time. Eric Benavides has been working in residential construction for four decades. He’s built everything from high-end custom homes to multi-unit subdivisions to affordable workforce housing.

1 month ago | thebuildersdaily.com | John McManus

The word resilience and its variations have already done yeoman's duty in the long wake of the pandemic. Yet, given what many expect will continue to be a whiplash stretch of turbulence ahead, resilience's overuse and ultimate risk of being hurled onto a growing heap of terms emptied of meaning is almost an inevitable fate. Still, it's the simplest word – with its full stack of implications and impacts – that makes the most sense to fasten on as a signal amidst all the noise.

1 month ago | thebuildersdaily.com | John McManus

In 2019, a master-planned community in Wesley Chapel, Florida, faced a problem. The development’s utility provider was delaying the installation of traditional streetlights, leaving new homebuyers in the dark. It wasn’t just an inconvenience — it was a costly headache. That’s when Liam Ryan saw an opening. Ryan, whose family business is in Florida land development, recognized the opportunity. Why not remove the need for the power grid altogether?