It’s best to have one continuous top and tie plate, but that’s not possible on longer walls. When multiple plates are ...

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 ...

As investigators work to uncover the cause of last week’s deadly construction fire in SouthPark, new details are emerging about the type of construction used at the site. The 239-unit luxury apartment ...

Your home is more than just a place to live—it’s a reflection of your personality and style. But building your dream home can be costly and the price of house framing, which on average is $25,000 but ...

Modular construction, also known as prefabrication, is rapidly emerging as a transformative trend in the construction industry. This innovative approach involves assembling building components ...

Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

I want to build my own home (as in I cut the wood and pound the nails, not just design and hire someone) and it has to be cheap to build and quick to go up. Nothing fancy, just the basics of a small 2 ...

New design and construction technologies are seldom used unless they can be economically justified. Private-sector building projects, in particular, have little room for technological innovation ...

Nick has seven years of experience in the home improvement industry. He started his career marketing for dozens of flooring providers and related home services across North America. Today, he is a ...