"The risk of building in flood-prone areas along with high insurance rates has been a killer, so challenging times require ...

Q: We're considering erecting a 4,000-square-foot steel frame home (from Heritage Building Systems) on our ranch in Turlock in Stanislaus County. Please discuss the merits/demerits of a steel (not ...

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 ...

It is widely known that wood offers higher levels of thermal resistivity versus other framing materials. In fact, wood naturally has nearly four times the thermal resistance of steel or masonry. The ...

A purpose-built deck building solution, a 4' x 6" tile deck tray can be installed on top of Evolution steel deck joists. This creates a smooth and flat surface that makes the process of installing ...

OLYMPIA, WA - Laying out the case for wood construction over steel, concrete and bricks, the Innovative Wood Products Collaborative notes that as timber grows, it soaks up carbon dioxide. That carbon ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

With an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to bring a better product to the market, Fertik brought Carbon Custom Builders to ...

Talk about “framing” these days, and many people will think about author and linguist George Lakoff, and the post-2004-election brouhaha about how to communicate, or “frame,” political ideas. But ...

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 ...