While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

In a region where wood-frame construction has long defined residential development, Dmitry Pingasov is quietly introducing a different structural language to northeast Pennsylvania. His material of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homes burn near Altadena Drive and New York Drive in Altadena due to the Eaton fire on Wednesday. (KTLA) To the editor: Right now in Los Angeles, we are seeing what happens when we build homes with ...