When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

Meet Clara & Edwin, a young couple living off-grid in a self-built tiny home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. After spending three years helping family friends rebuild their timber frame cabin ...

One of the first elements used by humans to build shelters, wood is a versatile material that, along with technological advances, remains a protagonist in the construction industry, being used in ...

Advocates for alternative house frames not reliant on brick, such as timber and steel, say such methods could cut construction time by up to half. It takes an average of 12 to 18 months to build a ...

Timber-frame construction puts gravity and lateral loads into fewer, larger members. It relies on exposed beams and open spans as defining architectural features. That differs from conventional wood ...

Mass timber is poised to join concrete, steel, and light-wood framing as a primary structural material for multifamily projects. Mass timber construction involves the use of prefabricated wood ...