Firefighters and fire chiefs: Forget everything you know about wood construction. Tall wood buildings (TWB)—or more accurately tall mass timber buildings—are not the conventional, lightweight wood, ...

Because a Type IV building is more robust and thus more fire resistive — strategically — than a leaner Type III building, they are listed out of order numerically. The August 2009 installment ...

Metl-Span has announced the introduction of ThermalSafe NC insulated metal panels. Designed for non-combustible wall construction, ThermalSafe NC insulated metal panels consist of a 3” structural ...

Californians are faced with a number of choices and challenges as they evaluate rebuilding following recent wildfires, and a campaign launched today provides resources and insights on the best path ...

We are in the process of building out our roof to be a usable deck/urban garden. It was recently brought to our attention that the DOB in Manhattan only allows 20% Ipe on the roof. Our engineer report ...

The project draws an unexpected crowd of inspectors and signals a new path for safer homebuilding in California. During a recent inspection, what should have been a routine check quickly turned into ...

Following the recently announced plans that Portland, Oregon, will permit a new development geared toward seniors to be built with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a building material comprised of large ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Project Frog, a leader in developing scalable Industrialized Construction (IC) solutions using an integrated building system product and technology approach, today ...