You usually can’t spot a concrete house when you’re standing outside or even inside one. Laura and David Owen didn’t know that the two-story house they wanted to buy in Olathe, Kan., featured ...

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. But wood construction isn't engineered ...

Clean-up efforts are in full force after a confirmed 10 tornadoes ripped across North Texas last week. They twisted through like wrecking balls for everything in their paths. City officials estimate ...

Lance Anderson is the owner of Lance Anderson Construction Inc. (Yankton, South Dakota) and maintains a passion for precision with every foundation and wall he constructs. On average, he and his crew ...

Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has said that the concrete levy introduced in the budget on Tuesday should lead to the building of more timber frame homes. The levy, from which it is expected ...

Two Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg homes currently under construction in Toano are using a modern ...

When Stockholm-based firm, OOAK Architects were tasked with building a beautiful home for two windsurfing aficionados on the Greek island of Karpathos, they created a design completely driven by the ...

The One South First building, part of Domino Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., features a concrete facade fabricated, in part, with composite molds produced using a large-format additive manufacturing machine.

Concrete is a stellar building material. It performs well against storms, termites, fire and the sands of time. But add insulation to it and concrete's list of benefits grows even longer. In both the ...

Ten glazed sections divided by board-marked concrete walls are lined up to form this long Mexican house, designed by architect Laurent Herbiet. Herbiet, who runs the Mexico City-based studio Hrbt, ...

Over the last few years, much of the focus on earthquake safety has been on concrete buildings and wooden apartments with weak first stories, which can collapse in a major earthquake. But ...