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 ...

Learn how to plan, route, and install hydronic radiant systems in timber-frame structures to deliver quiet, efficient, and visually unobtrusive heating solutions.

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

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 ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

In a region where wood-frame construction has long defined residential development, Dmitry Pingasov is quietly introducing a different structural language to northeast Pennsylvania. His material of ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

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 ...

First of the critical building features is construction method. Building construction influences both fire behavior and structural stability under fire conditions. Combustible construction such as ...