Construction Quality
This list identifies incomplete work and defects to correct before a project is closed out.
What is a punch list
This catalog retailer sold ready-to-assemble houses under its Modern Homes program.
What is Sears?
Before adopting the ARCXIS name, the company operated under this four-letter acronym followed by “Builder Services.”
What is DPIS?
This insulation rating measures resistance to heat flow.
What is R-Value?
Brothers Bob and Bruce founded this luxury homebuilder in 1967.
What is Toll Brothers?
Installed around windows, doors, and roof intersections, this material directs water away from vulnerable joints.
What is Flashing?
This famous post-World War II development became synonymous with mass-produced suburban housing in America.
What is Levittown
Dale Phillips Inspection Services—the company’s original business—was established in this year.
1988
This test uses a powerful fan mounted in an exterior doorway to measure a home’s airtightness.
What is a blower door test?
What builder was founded in 1950 and still carries the family name?
What is Pulte Homes
This inspection occurs before concrete placement, while reinforcement and other embedded items remain visible.
What is a pre-pour inspection? Accept pre-placement inspection.
This historic framing method used long studs extending past intermediate floors, sometimes the full height of a house.
What is balloon framing
DPIS announced its rebranding as ARCXIS in February of this year.
What is 2022?
Heat transfer caused by the movement of air or another fluid is called this.
What is Convection?
This homebuilding company in the Dallas–Fort Worth area in 1978.
What is DR Horton
In construction, this two-letter abbreviation names the planned processes used to help prevent quality problems.
This famous architect popularized the Prairie style and introduced the concept of the “Usonian” home.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
DPIS expanded into structural engineering and became DPIS Engineering in this year.
What is 1995?
This is the temperature at which air becomes saturated and condensation can begin as it cools.
What is Dew Point?
Founded in 1942, this association represents the homebuilding industry and hosts the International Builders’ Show.
What is NAHB, or the National Association of Home Builders?
These interruptions in concealed wall and floor cavities help restrict the movement of flames and hot gases.
What is Fireblocking?
This framing method builds each story on a separate floor deck and largely replaced balloon framing in modern houses.
What is platform framing?
From coast to coast, Arcxis now provides services in this many states.
What is 30
This occurs when a conductive component, such as a stud, creates a path for heat through an insulated assembly.
What is thermal bridging?
This company became the first publicly traded homebuilding company on the New York Stock Exchange
What is KB Home