2019 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Overall Excellence > Magazine of the Year > More Than $3 Million Revenue

Awarded to

John McManus, VP; Jennifer Lash, EIC; Jennifer Goodman, Editor; Tina Tabibi, Art Director; Brian Croce, Leah Demirjian, and Lauren Shanesy, Senior Associate Editors; Mary Salmonsen, Assistant Editor

Entry details

BUILDER: Magazine of the Year

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Publication name: BUILDER
Publishing company: Hanley Wood
Website home page: https://builderonline.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

BUILDER is the leading brand in the residential construction industry, delivering a strategic platform of data and media products. With more than 35 years of award-winning journalistic excellence, BUILDER is the trusted source for top builders, architects, and other industry professionals in print, online, and in person via executive-level face-to-face events. As part of the Hanley Wood Residential Construction Group, which serves the $372 billion single-family and multifamily home building and management sector, BUILDER meets the information and decision-support needs in design, construction, land and real estate strategy, finance, new products, sales and marketing, technology, and business management, as well as the economy and housing policy.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

In 2018, BUILDER covered many issues impacting U.S. home builders’ ability to construct affordable, efficient, and well-designed housing.
The right building products can make or break a home sale, and we focused on them cover to cover in April, providing information on 80-plus of the newest and best wares for builders. The issue also highlights the trend of mixing metal finishes, looks at the oft-heated debate of showers vs. tubs, goes behind the scenes at experience centers for building products, and includes proprietary research on builders’ brand preferences across 51 product categories.
May features the industry’s most prized rankings: The Builder 100 and Next 100 lists of the country’s top builders by closings. The cover story offers an in-depth look at the list’s No. 2 firm just after it merged with another public builder—the biggest M&A deal in home building history. A second story examines the lingering effects of the housing crash, profiling builders who not only survived it but also thrived. Also included is our annual public builder report card, with grades coming from performance in four categories: financial, land, operations, and sales and marketing.
The June cover touts our roundup of best pickups for the jobsite. We also zero in on the top new-home markets in the country for millennial home buyers, and look at developers using man-made waterways to transform landlocked master planned communities. A hard-hitting look at public builder CEO pay rankings is included, in addition to insight on California’s solar mandates for 2020.

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