Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

Recently, a major fire raced through the AvalonBay at Edgewater apartment community in New Jersey, destroying several hundred units and displacing the residents of the luxury development in the middle ...

Erector sets that shimmer in today's summer-solstice sun. Dozens of steel-framed houses are rising in San Joaquin County's newest town, giving a temporary sparkle to portions of the master-planned ...

Once upon a time, the Three Little Pigs built their houses of straw, sticks and bricks. But if they were planning a new home today, they would have another option guaranteed to withstand the most ...

A RECENT story by Denise Salvaggio about steel-frame homes left out how environmentally expensive it is to use steel as a building material instead of wood. This is ironic in a story that focuses on a ...

In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

When Lynn Beattie decided to build a house, she began to research all the various decisions that would have to be made during the process. One seminar she attended mentioned the growing problem of ...

Hurricanes and termites make homeowners cringe. But they’ve become selling points for businessmen promoting steel home components. Andrew Marshall, co-owner of an Arabi company that manufactures steel ...

The owners of this late-19th-century two-story wood-frame were ready to abandon their dream of adding square footage, after the first architect they consulted produced a design that would have been ...