According to the International Building Code wood-frame structures that are of the VB construction type can be two stories high with a total area of 9,000 square feet and type VA can be up to ...

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 underperforms, ...

Light-wood framing is used in single-family dwellings and some strip malls, but structural wood construction has waned in the United States until recently. Yes, we already build single-family ...

The American Wood Council's 2015 “Wood-Frame Construction Manual for One- and Two-Family Dwellings” (WFCM ) has been approved as an American National Standard by the American National Standards ...

A wave of fires at wood-frame multifamily construction sites across the United States has critics calling for tighter building codes, but developers stress too much regulation could negatively ...

Floors supported by lightweight wood parallel chord trusses is the “balloon frame construction of the 21st century; just laid on its side. Often the occupants of these buildings are protected by ...

The R2 Hardwood Monocoque Bicycle comes with a hollow wood frame structure and its shell is bonded and mechanically […] Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu. Search.

From the late 1800s until about 1940, balloon-frame wood construction was a fast and easy way to construct multi-story homes found primarily in the East and Midwest.

As wood-frame apartment construction has risen across the country, so too has the frequency of high-profile apartment fires. Last month's fire at Wood Partners' Fuse 47 project in College ...

The 239-unit luxury apartment building had a wood-frame construction, according to the developer and county records, an increasingly common style over the past decade.