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 ...

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 ...

A classic way to make cabinets is to build plywood boxes (aka carcasses) and cover the front with a hardwood face frame. Cabinets like this are strong and handsome and relatively easy to build, ...

Timber frame construction sites should not be any more prone to serious fires than projects using ‘conventional’ materials, say Peter Jackman and Chris Houchen. Following investigations into the ...

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 wood-frame apartment construction has risen across the country, so too has the frequency of high-profile apartment fires. Last month's fire at Wood Partners' Fuse 47 project in College Park, which ...

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 ...