A quiet revolution--save for the whine of screw guns--is underway at the corner of Culver Drive and Bryan Avenue in Irvine, where Lennar Homes is building 203 homes with steel-framed panels. The ...
Antonio Matarranz is building a new house with a one-stall garage. But when it’s finished, the house will contain two cars. That’s about how much recycled steel — former autos turned into construction ...
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 ...
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, ...
Using an innovative construction process, B & B Steel Homes Inc. has reduced the labor cost of building a steel-framed home. "The labor cost for building a steel-framed home used to be four to five ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. A custom, steel-fabricated FEMA Flood Zone and ...
`Superhouse,” the home of steel, is a concept that has yet to show its strength in the Chicago area. But one of the few local projects using steel is a demonstration house now being built by the ...
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 ...
Key partners behind the development of a new, 95 home Extra Care scheme in Hebburn have marked a major milestone in ...
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 ...