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 ...

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 ...

I've lived in North Texas my whole life. I remember the tornado sirens, sheltering in the bathtub, and seeing the aftermath of torn-apart homes and neighborhoods after storms - like one that roiled ...

Notably, nearly all of these “metal houses” were in the South, where building codes have gotten stricter as worsening extreme weather events cause billions of dollars in damage, drive up insurance ...

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 ...

Hurricanes and termites make homeowners cringe. But they’ve become selling points for businessmen promoting steel home components. Andrew Marshall, co-owner of an Arabi company that manufactures steel ...

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 ...

Dear Jim I would like to build a home with safe, strong steel framing instead of lumber and I know many companies produce them. Is living in a steel-framed home like being in a warehouse and are they ...

`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 ...

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