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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: We're considering erecting a 4,000-square-foot steel frame home (from Heritage Building Systems) on our ranch in Turlock in Stanislaus County. Please discuss the merits/demerits of a steel (not ...

A steel-frame house in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, that withstood Hurricane Melissa is shaping a US$5-million investment push by Modular Jamaica into local housing manufacturing as the company moves ...

`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 ...

There’s a little more going on with 6226 Acacia Avenue in Upper Rockridge than a potential buyer might see at first glance. Granted, this brand new, five-bed, four-and-a-half-bath $2.99 million home ...

Turkish manufacturing company Karmod has completed a modular housing project in Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, marking the firm's first steel-frame construction in the country. The three-room ...