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A Uniform Residential Appraisal Report or URAR is one of the most common forms used in United States real estate appraisals. It was created to allow for standard reporting and analysis of single-family dwellings or single-family dwellings with an "accessory unit".
An example of planed lumber is softwood "two by four" lumber sold by large lumber retailers, nominally 2 by 4 inches (50 mm × 100 mm). The 2 × 4 is actually only 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (38 mm × 89 mm), but the dimensions for the lumber when purchased wholesale could still be represented as full 2 × 4 lumber, although the "standard ...
UFP Industries was founded in Michigan in 1955 as a supplier of lumber to the manufactured housing industry. In 2021, the company had over 200 locations in eight countries with 15,000+ employees and sales of $8.6 billion.
The Central Committee on Lumber Standards was started in 1922 by Herbert Hoover when he was U.S. Secretary of Commerce at the request of the lumber industry. [4] Chaired by John W. Blodgett, the Central Committee was intended to be a way to create voluntary lumber standards without imposing formal government regulations, in order to solve the problem of lumber manufacturers selling lumber that ...
The standard hundred of the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg was 120 boards which were 12 feet long, 1 1 ⁄ 2 inches thick and 11 inches wide – a volume of 165 cubic feet. [5] The city changed its name to Petrograd when the First World War started in 1914 and so the unit was then known as the Petrograd Standard or PSH (Petrograd Standard ...
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Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry – primarily softwood, from coniferous species, including pine, fir and spruce (collectively spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring. It is more commonly made from softwood than hardwoods, and 80% of lumber comes ...
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA International) is a trade organization founded in 1907 for commercial real estate professionals. [2] Its mission is to advance the performance of commercial real estate through advocacy, promoting professional competency, standards and research.