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Learning to pour concrete may save money and build your skills, but without proper equipment and attention to detail, the results can look far from professional. Concrete—generally a combination of ...

Fall House Hunt Poured concrete is a fun canvas, but can builders find a more environmentally friendly way to use it? Writer Regina Cole looks at a Vermont vacation home that breaks the mold on home ...

Brian Leussler’s Vermont house doesn’t look like your average wood-framed mountainside home because it’s not. The north exterior wall resembles an abstraction of the surrounding forest: Corrugated ...

WARREN - People in glass houses are admonished not to throw stones. How about people in concrete houses? Well, they can throw whatever they want, because houses built of concrete are virtually ...

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. But wood construction isn't engineered ...

The doors could soon close on new construction of wood-framed homes. At least that is what many regulators are pushing to make happen. After decades of wood-framed houses being pummeled by wildfires, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it often ...