The storms aren't letting up - in fact, they're getting worse - and the homes that Americans shelter from these storms in, ...

This is a critical role in a building’s structural frame, as walls that do not properly manage lateral loads can experience racking, base shear and overturning. A stud wall by itself, without bracing ...

The same procedure was followed in the cold climate, using steel as the building material for comparison with the wood-framed house. Life-cycle analysis results for the steel-framed vs. wood-framed ...

Gary Bowker explains why preplan surveys of buildings that appear to be brick from the exterior are necessary to ensure that the brick isn’t a veneer that covers Type V wood-frame construction.

The 239-unit luxury apartment building had a wood-frame construction, according to the developer and county records, an increasingly common style over the past decade. Known as pedestal or podium ...

A Chicago-area company plans to build a 13-story apartment building in the University District out of wood, making it the country's second-tallest timber-framed building. Harbor Bay Ventures is ...

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" ...

This will be Harbor Bay's second wood-based project; two years ago, the company opened INTRO in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood, made of two timber-framed buildings, nine and 11 stories high.