Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn’t ...

Hi! Watch the mesmerizing process of building a wooden house in the middle of the forest during the winter season. See how ...

With proper construction in conformance with code regulations, a “fire safe” building can be designed. In many cases, ordinary wood-frame construction with wood structural panel sheathing provides ...

(“2 dead and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, other buildings destroyed in L.A. County fires,” Jan. 8) We citizens are too stupid to insist on building ... better than wood-frame structures.

A chara, – It was reassuring to see coverage of wood-frame construction, its benefits and the bureaucratic and cultural challenges it faces in Ireland in Sylvia Thompson’s article (“Can ...

“Once the (wood-frame) building is complete and the ... Another critical component to consider: enhancing staircases during construction of the building. Building codes don’t always mention ...

This project investigates the use of wood as a scale, so that people in a wood-frame building can be detected in real time (e.g., for intruder detection and energy conservation) and creating "smart" ...

Florida Fire Prevention Code does require sprinklers and fire alarms in wood-frame buildings. Officials the Doro apartment building had ... a final pressure check during a fire inspection that ...

Typical untreated wood-frame exterior walls are combustible and contribute as fuel during a fire; Type III walls don’t. Exterior metal cladding on this building was applied over the original ...

The question: Why was the eight-floor apartment building's frame built out of wood? First Coast News spoke with both developers and attorneys not affiliated with the RISE Doro's construction ...

A hempcrete home under construction in in Fargo on July 26 is the focus of research comparing the hemp building material with a traditional wood frame house.