The gallery is currently staging a resourceful exhibition on wood-frame construction, the method by which more than 90% of U.S. houses are built. The show’s dominant feature is a soaring three ...

wood-frame buildings - those no taller than four stories - which may have a "soft story" condition making them vulnerable to collapse even during a moderate earthquake. In soft-story construction, the ...

A long-neglected and formerly ornate wood-frame apartment house on Greenpoint’s Calyer Street ... However, at the hearing, Christina Conroy of the Victorian Society of New York said the building ...

Typical untreated wood-frame exterior walls are combustible and contribute as fuel during a fire; Type III walls don’t. Exterior metal cladding on this building was applied over the original ...

Demolition permits have been filed to take down this two-story wood frame at 32 Maspeth Avenue in East Williamsburg; the owner hopes to replace it with a six-story apartment building. Whenever we see ...

This project investigates the use of wood as a scale, so that people in a wood-frame building can be detected in real time (e.g., for intruder detection and energy conservation) and creating "smart" ...

A chara, – It was reassuring to see coverage of wood-frame construction, its benefits and the bureaucratic and cultural challenges it faces in Ireland in Sylvia Thompson’s article (“Can ...

It was sunny and late morning, but there was a glow radiating off the wooden beams and columns more akin to the golden hour before dusk. To the untrained eye, the unfinished seven-story building ...

Florida Fire Prevention Code does require sprinklers and fire alarms in wood-frame buildings. Officials the Doro apartment building had ... a final pressure check during a fire inspection that ...

The question: Why was the eight-floor apartment building's frame built out of wood? First Coast News spoke with both developers and attorneys not affiliated with the RISE Doro's construction ...