With the economy still forecast to get gloomy as well as an uncertain road ahead, many residential developments as well as their builders have put the brakes on new construction projects. For builders and developers within the speculative home building market the methods for earning money from their business best and remaining solvent while the process are limited and challenging.

Many have resorted to building smaller homes using value engineered construction plans, emphasizing quality not quantity. Much more effort adjusted into making a home energy-efficient and utilizing the latest green technologies on the market today. Also, cheaper homes are being built using less expensive, more standardized materials.

Builders have sharpened their pencils to shrink profit margins, incorporated more productive solutions to reduce operating costs and upgraded to the latest technologies to streamline project efficiency. Some have even regrouped, combining resources and developing partnerships with other people of their field.

But …