Question: I recently saw some very attractive new steel-framed houses. Are these houses energy efficient (for passive solar too)? Are they inexpensive and easy to build for a do-it-yourselfer on a ...

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / May 1, 2025 / In the aftermath of January's wildfires that swept through 40,000 acres causing $250 billion in local economic damage, destroying more than 16,000 ...

Battered by volatile lumber prices for the past year, many Central Florida home builders increasingly have shifted to steel framing for interior walls. And as long as steel is competitive in pricing, ...

A RECENT story by Denise Salvaggio about steel-frame homes left out how environmentally expensive it is to use steel as a building material instead of wood. This is ironic in a story that focuses on a ...

Like a giant Erector set, a two-story, steel-frame house took shape this week inside a cavernous warehouse in Rohnert Park. It's the latest project of Sonoma County developer Hugh Codding, who built ...

DANBURY -- Steven Timur Lang can fashion wrought iron into roses, and hammer dense rectangles of layered stainless steel into beautiful Damacus knives, the kind his Hungarian ancestors could have ...

Doug and Ozzie Kemp are used to neighbors’ questions about that “steel thing” being built in their midst. The Kemps know that the land is zoned for residential, not commercial, use and concede that ...

More than 70 percent of new-home construction in Hawaii uses cold-steel frame studs in place of traditional wooden two-by-fours. “No other state comes even close,” says Tim Waite of the Hawaii Steel ...