The fire originated on the first floor of the 1.5-story wood-frame building and extended to the second floor. The estimated ...

A motorcycle with a wooden frame has been spotted in Africa, leaving us with more questions than answers.

Brent Buck Architects has pulled off one of the first mass timber buildings in the five boroughs. Frame 122, a Clinton Hill ...

Compare steel, wood, and concrete for modern buildings—uncover the pros, cons, and best use cases in today’s speed- and ...

Wood is relatively affordable and readily available, offering a cost-effective solution for homebuilding. Contractors are familiar with wood construction techniques. In addition, building codes and ...

Today, light-frame wood construction dominates the U.S. residential market. Wood is relatively affordable and readily available, offering a cost-effective solution for homebuilding.

Over 90% of the new homes built in the U.S. rely on wood framing. Wood has deep historical roots as a building material in ...

ROCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire nonprofit organization feeling the effects of rising prices is turning to cost-saving building materials. Southeast New Hampshire Habitat for Humanity says ...

Watch the precise process of sawing acacia wood to create perfect frame materials. With each cut, the wood is shaped into the ideal dimensions of 8 cm × 14 cm, ready to be used in various projects.

One limitation of wood-frame construction is that it is suitable primarily for buildings of six storeys or fewer, MacKinnon says. As a result, developers using the technique need larger parcels of ...

The two-story, wood-frame building at 2208 First Street in downtown Fort Myers, built in 1900, met its end in 2019 because of neglect.

The company’s core goal is to improve the sustainability of construction projects. Building with wood instead of concrete and steel in 80% of new buildings would, according to a 2020 study by ...