Ricardo Brites has spent much of his career helping move engineered timber buildings from ambitious design experiments into practical housing solutions. Originally from Portugal, Brites completed his ...

Based in Payson, Utah, the company has delivered 6,000+ custom pergolas, pavilions, and cabanas nationwide using a patented joint system tested to 11,000 lbs. PAYSON ...

In a year dominated by sharp partisanship, numerous lawmakers improbably united around the revival of America’s commercial shipbuilding industry. Congressional legislation that would channel billions ...

“We can cut the time for pre-planning construction tasks by 60 percent and trim our use of state funds by up to 15 percent over traditional methods. We want to make out-of-the box approaches and ...

The forgotten shelter that survived Tacloban’s 1944 superstorm. Not far from today’s ruined shoreline of Tacloban once stood a US naval base that faced another monster storm— long before Supertyphoon ...

The Canadian Wood Council (CWC) and the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of steel-timber hybrid structural solutions in ...

There’s a magical place perched high in the mountains of San Diego County where the air smells like Christmas morning and the silence is so complete you can hear pine needles landing on the forest ...

Half of the furniture in my house is from Ikea, but even I know this is not a great thing to say to the general population about a home build. In my very temperate hometown, the 5-10 year old wooden 5 ...

Ryan Skipp did not fancy spending his retirement boxed up in the city. The businessman preferred a bespoke box home in the Karoo, nestled in the mountains, which took just weeks to “install”. Skipp is ...

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...