American homebuilders love lumber. Can they learn to love steel? Last year, 94% of all single-family homes built in the United States were “stick built,” according to industry data. Most of the ...
PALM CITY – When Blake Madgett launched a company last year that constructs homes from steel shipping containers, he needed workers and wanted to hire people seeking a second chance to get a fresh ...
Green steel helps deliver both. It’s still steel, the beams, frames, and reinforcements builders use every day, but it is made with clean electricity or hydrogen instead of coal. That switch shrinks ...
To the editor: Right now in Los Angeles, we are seeing what happens when we build homes with wood framing instead of tilt-up steel reinforced cement walls that would be more fire-resistant. (“2 dead ...
SWORDS, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator, today announced it will further reduce the carbon impact of its industry-leading, sustainable HVAC ...
As a youngster in the 1950s, I remember my folks pointing out to me a house on West Street in Pittsfield. Because the home looked sort of like a porcelain-enameled eatery I had seen in Albany, N.Y., I ...