A quiet revolution--save for the whine of screw guns--is underway at the corner of Culver Drive and Bryan Avenue in Irvine, where Lennar Homes is building 203 homes with steel-framed panels. The ...

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 ...

American homebuilders love lumber. Can they learn to love steel? Last year, 94% of all single-family homes built in the United States were "stick built," according to industry data. Most of the ...

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 ...

Dear Jim: We are planning to build our dream home. It must be strong to resist severe storms and be efficient. It seems as though most businesses and factories are built from steel. Will this also ...

A veteran carpenter plans to halve the time it takes to build a home and cut construction costs by up to 30 percent with his introduction of steel frame housing to the island. Southside Carpentry ...

Notably, nearly all of these “metal houses” were in the South, where building codes have gotten stricter as worsening extreme weather events cause billions of dollars in damage, drive up insurance ...