Residential job site losses of office trailers, material goods, tools and heavy equipment or machinery account for an annual 1 percent to 2 percent increase in the cost of building a new home, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C. Despite this, less than 15 percent of job sites have identified an effective alarm system or other solution.
This surprising conclusion is from interviews by power tool manufacturer DeWalt, Towson, Md., of more than 200 end users on job sites across the country and polling of more than 1,500 construction end users and buyers by an independent research company.