More than 1,600 homes and businesses in Los Angeles and Ventura counties were destroyed and at least three people were killed in the Woolsey fire in 2018. The Camp Fire in Northern California’s Butte ...

Llittle less than 10 years ago, insulating concrete forms (ICFs) were known as a relatively obscure building system used mostly for foundations. However, ICF construction has grown quietly over the ...

The house is so peaceful that Michael and Susan Mullendore had to install microphones to hear the outside brook trickling through the yard. “It’s wonderfully quiet; still and quiet,” Susan said of her ...

The Aspire Trade High School is the first charter trade high school in the Charlotte, North Carolina metro area which offers hands-on education for students to gain a variety of trade skills. This ...

The Rising Stars Program, a nonprofit that aims to close the skilled labor gap by connecting young adults with career pathways in construction, gave Cleveland Heights High School students an ...

Chattanooga builder Aaron Caldwell is touting his "hurricane strength construction" amid continuing incidents of severe storms and twisters. Mr. Caldwell, a Covenant College graduate, builds using ...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- In the early morning hours of October 25, 2019, the Palos family watched and wept as their home became a casualty of the Tick fire in Southern California. It was the only home ...

Robert Stock and his wife grew up liking castles so when they got married they decided to hold the ceremony in the 700 year old Balgonie Castle located near Fife, Scotland. Afterwards, when they ...

WESTPORT — Paul Gudas had planned to build an 8,000-square-foot wood-framed home a few months ago, before he learned about a decades-old but relatively unknown construction method. After several ...

From the outside, Joplin’s west-side Kingdom Hall looks like a traditional building. The brick exterior gives no hint of the use of a construction method called Insulating Concrete Forms, or ICF.