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 ...

Matti Kuittinen’s 365-square-foot residence is a call to action to reduce the carbon footprint of home building.

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 ...

The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...