Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...
Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber ...
Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...
WINONA, Minn – Fastenal, distributor of wide-ranging industrial and construction products, opened the doors to its new 97,600-square-foot corporate office. Designed by The Kubala Washatko Architects ...
This isn't your great-great-grandfather's office building — even though it will be constructed with a frame fashioned mainly from wood, instead of concrete and steel. The unusual seven-story building ...
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 ...
Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The record may not last long, but Cleveland will have special bragging rights as long as it does. Come 2021, it appears the city will be home to the tallest timber-frame building in ...
Company head Gregg Schnopp introduced Larkin to two men who have extensive experience with timber-frame construction, Scott Brockway of Berkshire Wood Products in Windsor, and Adam Miller, a carpenter ...
Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...
A fire in London last year spread via scaffolding before penetrating a timber-framed extension on the top of the building fitted with disconnected fire alarms.
STEVENSVILLE, Mont. — A Stevensville timber frame home builder was sentenced for defrauding customers. Brett Mauri, 61, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in ...