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 ...

Dear Jim: We are planning to build our dream home. It must be strong to resist severe storms and be efficient. It seems as though most businesses and factories are built from steel. Will this also ...

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 ...

(KPIX 5) -- Devastating wildfires in California may end up changing the way we build homes in the Bay Area, and a startup construction company is betting on it. From the outside, Eugene Yu's new home ...

But now it is taking its steel building methods to new places, which could eventually make an impact on the construction of single-family homes. Last year, RNGD opened its 85,000-square-foot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. I’ve lived in North Texas my whole life. I ...