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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 ...

The National Frame Building Association (NFBA) released a pictoral history of post-frame construction, an engineered wood-frame building system that produces buildings with large posts or laminated ...

In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

Concrete is one of the most expensive and widely used materials in construction. It forms foundations, slabs, columns, beams, driveways, and structural frames. Because of its large volume in ...