In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

Researchers conducted tests of a wood-frame building using an outdoor shake table at the University of California, San Diego. The work was part of the NEES-Soft project to better understand the ...

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 ...

After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential lightweight wood-frame building complexes this summer, officials from both municipalities are questioning the safety of ...

Fire experts said while wood-frame buildings are just as safe as steel-framed or concrete buildings when completed, they are highly vulnerable for a few months during construction before fire safety ...

Modular construction by Maisons Laprise, Quebec, Canada. Image Courtesy of QWEB Proven and effective construction methods are not static, instead they're always improving. In Quebec, Canada, light ...