The Trump administration’s latest tariffs on housing materials could raise the average cost of building a single-family home ...

The siding you choose for your home has to look good — that’s a given. But it also has to protect it from the elements, and those vary depending on your location and climate zone. Most siding ...

The idea of a straw building might bring to mind a medieval homestead, or perhaps the fairy-tale dwelling of The Three Little Pigs. Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building ...

In the wake of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, the urgency for homeowners and construction professionals to embrace fire-resistant building practices has reached a critical peak. Choosing ...

Materials prices for nonresidential projects in December were 3% below the price peak in July 2006. While the materials price index for nonresidential projects edged up 0.2% in December, this was ...

Construction robots have been around for a while, automating challenging tasks on job sites. The new kid on this block is ...

The price index for materials used in nonresidential construction inched up 0.2% in December after declining for three months, but remains 3% below the peak index value last July. Pricing trends will ...

Let’s dig into the relative performance of Gibraltar (NASDAQ:ROCK) and its peers as we unravel the now-completed Q1 home construction materials earnings season. Traditionally, home construction ...

Increasingly, due to the warming climate, wildfires are becoming more common than in the recent past, posing a threat to towns and rural development. Part of the reason has to do with how wildfires ...

On most days, a railway car rolls into the Mill Creek Lumber and Supply yard at 6974 E. 38th St. These cars are loaded with thousands of boards and beams of various dimensions — typically 130,000 ...

Whether you’ve completed a major renovation of your home, or a smaller weekend project, chances are you have some leftover building materials. You may also have perfectly good tools or equipment that ...