"The risk of building in flood-prone areas along with high insurance rates has been a killer, so challenging times require ...

Many factors come into play when choosing how to frame your next construction project, whether big or small, simple or complex. Metal or steel framing, particularly when looking at custom-engineered ...

This course will examine how noncombustible steel deck framing makes it possible to meet stringent building and fire codes in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) zones. Because steel is a Class A ...

The Metal Construction Association last week announced the winners of its 2013 Chairman’s Award, which recognizes metal building projects that employ innovation and creativity while showcasing how ...

Light steel frame building (LSFB) is not the same as prefabricated or ‘kit’ buildings, as it is rather a building method. Another term is ‘off-site’ construction, due to the fact that a lot of the ...

True Metal Supply’s Post Frame Building Kits offer a simple and hassle-free way to build a barn, carport, RV cover, or ...

Talk about “framing” these days, and many people will think about author and linguist George Lakoff, and the post-2004-election brouhaha about how to communicate, or “frame,” political ideas. But ...

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 ...

Hot-dip galvanised substrate is produced on continuous zinc coating lines from either cold-rolled (thickness range 0.27mm to 2. mm) or hot-rolled (thickness 2.01mm to 3.0mm) steel substrate in coil ...