Heading up Frank and Brenda Baker's driveway in Blissfield, Mich., the first thing you notice about their bungalow-styled house is the timber truss supporting the front porch. With its weathered wood ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. PREFABULOUS FOR EVERYONE will be released April 18th 2023. Although structural insulated panel (SIPs) houses still only account ...

Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Learn to Timber Frame (Storey Publishing, 2016) is a guidebook for beginners, showing exactly how to build one small ...

Mass-timber-frame enthusiasts extoll the virtues of the structural material not only because it is renewable but also because building with timber is typically speedier, safer, simpler and quieter ...

As an architect, I’ve been using structural insulated panels (SIPs) since 1992, when they were relatively new. Since then, I’ve designed several hundred residential and commercial projects using SIPs.

With mass timber becoming an increasingly mainstream building material, we continue our review of the year by looking at nine of the most interesting cross-laminated timber and glued laminated timber ...