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 ...

U.S.-based builders build around 90% of new single-family homes with wood frames. But no building material is without its downsides. Fire risk, mold, water damage, termites, and other issues make ...

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 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.