Explore the future of construction with timber. Discover how sustainable practices are transforming the building industry.

Amid the charred rubble of burnt-down homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, you’ll find one Chautauqua ...

Several insulation solutions are designed to fill in gaps in specific parts of a house, and a common type is blown-in ...

Home hardening means using fire-resistant building materials and landscaping to protect buildings from heat, flames and a blast of embers during a firestorm. Here’s a brief overview of what that ...

Decks are made from a flame-resistant Brazilian hardwood. RELATED: What is ‘home hardening’? Fire-resistant walls, roofs, windows and landscaping It includes a fire-suppression system to spray ...

Builders in Idaho embrace climate resistant homes with ICF construction, metal roofs, and energy efficient designs as ...

In a previous study, we proposed a wet winding technique using electrically-conductive epoxy composites to control the contact resistance of no-insulation (NI) HTS coils. In that method, the epoxy ...

You could argue that Orchard Hills’ fire resistance began a century ago, when Irvine Valencia Growers planted an avocado orchard in the hills above the community. The orchard grew into one of ...