Q: My house plan calls for steel beams that will support the floor joists and even parts of a brick wall. Can I substitute wood beams for steel? Is a steel I-beam hard to handle on the job site? Do ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

LANSDALE >> Within the next few weeks, the final dimensions of Lansdale’s new municipal building will take their full shape, and the final portion of the borough’s Wood-Vine streetscape project can be ...

Q: I’m building a new home and visited the job site a few days ago. I was aghast at a possible defect in my foundation. Parts of the concrete foundation are suspended in midair. The walls are only ...

Masonry construction is one of the oldest methods of creating built structures. However, the brick wall has changed considerably since the first fired clay bricks were laid nearly 8,000 years ago. To ...

There weren’t very many older homes in the area of St. George, Utah, where Brooke Ulrich bought her house. “Everything about it was just plain,” she says. “We wanted to kind of create that older ...