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Labor costs are up, material costs are up, and some multifamily projects that might have been easy to finance five years ago are now frozen in their tracks. But a cost-saving alternative to standard, ...

Wray Emerson has resolved to give his wife Sandra and three kids a new house this new year. “My wife keeps asking me when it’s going to be ready,” he says, laughing. Sandra’s patience may be wearing ...

Despite being ubiquitous in countries around the world, particularly in Europe and South America, concrete homes are still fairly rare in the United States when compared to the hegemony of wood.

Hear that? Pencils are sharpening. Teachers are decorating classrooms. Back to school is underway. With the attention to these facilities, take a moment to acknowledge the thought that went into the ...

BELLEVUE -- Developers of multi-family as well as multi-story housing in seismic zone 4 can take lessons from recent local projects that incorporated durable materials design choices. 1995 witnessed ...

St. James | Ever wonder how well your house would hold up in a hurricane? David Filios, an architect, has that covered, he says. The house he is building in St. James Plantation, near Southport, is ...