In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

A well-built frame is critical to the quality and longevity of a structure. While the responsibility for building design rests with the architect and the engineer of record, the framer has a large ...

Timber Frame has been a feature of home building and construction since the earliest recorded times. Today timber frame construction in Ireland is one of the fastest and most economical ways of ...

Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

Mike Pelky, residential framer in Arizona, talks about the challenges, value and success of a fall safety program his company instituted Mike Pelky is a residential rough framer working in Arizona. In ...

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 ...

The National Frame Building Association (NFBA) released a pictoral history of post-frame construction, an engineered wood-frame building system that produces buildings with large posts or laminated ...