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In this video, I build an A-frame hut using grass and mud as natural materials. This hut serves as a large workspace for future projects, providing shelter and durability in the wilderness. 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 ...

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 ...

Large frame awnings and fabric structures are what most of us in the industry want, or at least a few of them per year. They ...

Keywords: NEESWOOD Project. Light-frame construction. Wood-frame structures. Residential structures. Performance-based seismic design. Full-scale tests. Shaking ...