Tension fabric buildings offer custom I-beam engineering for facilities with tipping floors. By Matt VanScoyoc The waste ...

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 ...

How thoughtful underwriting, realistic capacity, and builder-specific insight can keep custom home projects insurable ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has released the first-ever set of U.S. recommendations for hybrid steel frames with mass timber floors, according to a news release. Design Guide ...

Stone makes up the facade, frame, foundations and floor slabs in the London Design Museum's Stone Demonstrator, a project ...

It sounds mystical, but it's true. Nels Houghton's dream was the catalyst that brought Daniel Schwartz, an Amish craftsman who specializes in timber-frame buildings, from El Dorado Springs, Mo., to ...

The pergola started out an arched structure usually in a garden consisting of a framework covered with plants. With the minimalism typical to contemporary architecture and design, the pergola designs ...

Learn how to build an a frame house (complete with a cozy sleeping loft) in this illustrated, step-by-step guide. One of the sturdiest of all structures is the A-frame, whose skeleton consists simply ...