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Profile on Ian B. Jones, RA

Rodney Renner — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:27:48 +0000

by: Marla Renner

Making The Renner Companies a full-fledged, fully rounded provider of construction services has been a plan that culminated with the addition of Ian B. Jones, RA in January of 2011. Having offered services that include new home construction, remodeling and rentals since 2001 in the Atlanta Metro area, it seemed only natural to offer to clients the [...]

The Renner Companies Newsletter – July 2011

Rodney Renner — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:12:15 +0000

Attached you will find the July 2011 newsletter. Please feel free to sign up for our communications as well as forward to all your friends. Knowledge is a wonderful thing!

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs058/1102570283989/archive/1106185213344.html

Why Choose Design/Build?

Rodney Renner — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:10:46 +0000

By Ian B. Jones

I am often approached by potential clients that want to know the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a design/build solution over the more historically prescribed design/bid/build solution for their home construction projects. This is a very complicated conversation that has many conditions and variables to be determined before coming to a [...]

Top 15 Green Home Building Ideas

Rodney Renner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:07:58 +0000

So, you’re looking for ideas for building your home and making it green. Green homes are healthy buildings for the occupants and the environment. They are also economical buildings, boasting reduced energy, water and maintenance costs. However, constructing or renovating homes in an environmentally responsible manner requires a great deal of planning and there are hundreds of building [...]

Building an Energy Efficient Home

Rodney Renner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:35:15 +0000

by Marcus Pickett

Efficiency is an important concept in today’s world. At work, it makes you more productive. In the household, it makes everyone more organized. It makes chores go faster, schedules more structured, and it even allows cars to conserve on costly fuel. It’s all about becoming more effective and less wasteful. Therefore, why [...]

Building a New Home

Rodney Renner — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:23:51 +0000

by Matt Myers

Prospective homeowners should give careful consideration to their decisions when planning to build a home. A great home is one that you are happy to wake up in every day, which is efficient in its layout and usage, that is interesting yet practical, and that brings joy into the very basics of living. [...]

6 Questions You Must Ask Before Building

Rodney Renner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:18:44 +0000

by Marc Dickinson

Homeowners build new homes for many reasons: to customize the design, choose features that preexisting homes cannot provide, or maybe to live in a specific location. For something unique, you could choose a timber framed, panelized, or other type of “kit” home. These are constructed with “building systems” prefabricated in a factory, [...]

Universal Design/Aging in Place Part 3

Rodney Renner — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:33:26 +0000

In the last two articles we gave a brief overview of what Universal Design and Aging in Place issues are all about as well as the differences between the two.

Briefly again, Universal Design or “Lifetime Design”, as it is sometimes referred to, means creating an environment that is user-friendly at any age [...]

Universal Design and Aging In Place Part 2

Rodney Renner — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:15:27 +0000

In Part One of this series, we gave you a very brief idea of what Universal Design and Aging in Place is all about. We would like to expand upon that in this installment. The term Universal Design (UD) has a fairly broad scope. Aging in Place really is a portion of UD. The definition [...]

Searching for ‘Greener Grass’: My Relocation Experience

Rodney Renner — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:42:44 +0000

After living in Atlanta for about 20 years, I decided it was time to start looking for ‘greener grass’. I was getting tired of the city life and all that comes with it. I had begun making more and more trips to the North Georgia area. Any excuse would do. Sometimes, I would just spend [...]