Wood construction of big buildings is catching on just about everywhere for good reasons: wood is renewable. In construction it is light, fast and less expensive than other materials. It's also just ...

As wood-frame apartment construction has risen across the country, so too has the frequency of high-profile apartment fires. Last month's fire at Wood Partners' Fuse 47 project in College Park, which ...

Wood is one of the oldest and most versatile materials used by humankind. For centuries, it has been used to build homes, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Unprecedented. That's how earthquake engineers describe today's seismic test at the University at Buffalo. Most simulated earthquake tests feature neither full-scale structures nor ...

The American Wood Council's 2015 “Wood-Frame Construction Manual for One- and Two-Family Dwellings” (WFCM ) has been approved as an American National Standard by the American National Standards ...

The wood-frame structure, built circa 1893 and within the Greenpoint Historic District, will be covered with new gray fiber cement clapboard siding. A new cornice and portico similar to the missing ...

When it comes to building in Estero, design standards have always been high. Even before incorporation, the city had voluntary design review committees for incoming development. That’s why many ...

A wave of fires at wood-frame multifamily construction sites across the United States has critics calling for tighter building codes, but developers stress too much regulation could negatively impact ...

The Glen at University Park, a complex of 107 three-story rowhouse condominiums for students at California State University’s San Bernardino campus, tells a story that is replaying in multifamily ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Ken. - The mammoth Ark Encounter project is being recognized as the world’s largest freestanding timber frame structure, with a total of 3.1 million board feet of pine timber used in its ...

New restrictions on the use of wood frame structures enacted by Sandy Springs, Ga., will likely impact the multifamily construction market. (Photo courtesy GLJ Partners) September 20, 2016 New limits ...

A “forest” of wooden latticework inside Notre Dame Cathedral fueled the fire that consumed the iconic church. The medieval roof structure “has been lost,” according to Monsignor Patrick Chauvet, the ...