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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elise Embery, Jessica Salazar Embery, Jaxon Embery and Brian Embery pose together for a portrait at their home in Lewisville on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. The family bought a steel-framed house by Netze ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...