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 ...

Hi, we have just had an offer accepted on wood-frame, 3 floor + attic, 2 family house in Gowanus. There is already a sink in the attic, and we were planning on enlarging the space, by raising the roof ...

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 ...

That's because at approximately 11:30 a.m., the furnished, three-bedroom, two-bath, wood-frame ... institutions. During the test, 250 sensors installed inside the house will gather detailed ...

Known as a pedestal or podium building, it’s actually two structures: a poured-concrete first level – the pedestal – with four stories of wood-frame construction on top. Another popular form ...

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 ...

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 ...

August 9, 2017 After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential lightweight wood-frame building complexes this summer, officials from both municipalities are ...