To build the precast concrete home, we used ultra-high-performance concrete, one of the latest advances in the concrete industry. Compared with conventional concrete, it’s about six times stronger, ...

When most Americans imagine a home, they picture a wood-framed house. But in an era of high housing costs and extreme weather ...

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"Mass timber buildings also replace more carbon-intensive materials, such as concrete and steel, and help to reduce construction waste." While there are mass timber facilities in Canada and B.C., they ...

But Al-Hadidi, who came to the U.S. when he was 17, is among at least a half-dozen doctors and other high-level medical ...

However, Grimmer believes that this is the first passive home made with mass timber material. Mass timber is essentially an all-wood construction where multiple smaller pieces of wood are combined ...

Kalamazoo exemplifies a growing trend of communities doing what they can within their borders to adapt to a changing climate.