For the past decade, Cook County High School students have had a unique opportunity to spend a week learning how to build ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

From centuries-old timber framing to cutting-edge hempcrete and cob, natural building methods are making a comeback for their beauty, durability, and eco-benefits. These materials not only reduce ...

PITTSFIELD — In May 1965, John Sobon, piloting a 60-foot crane, ripped into a North Adams apartment building, bringing a century-old timber frame structure to the ground. In a period marked by postwar ...

SOME of Britain’s biggest mortgage lenders and housebuilders have toured Scotland’s world leading structural timber industry ...