Posts and beams can be steel, wood or engineered lumber. When placing joists, studs, rafters or trusses, carpenters need to ...

Saint Louis University’s Building Engineering Awareness in Metro Saint Louis Schools Competition — or Billiken BEAMS — is a group-based project opportunity in which students compete in teams to design ...

DIY faux ceiling beams. With beadboard, fresh paint, updated lighting, and now faux beams, this hallway is a showstopper.

What’s unusual is how they’re building it — by bolting together giant beams, columns, and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood. As each wood element is delivered by flatbed, a tall ...

Pure-wood buildings such as Port Plus, whose pillars, beams and other components are all made of lumber, are increasingly finding a market in Japan. Leading general contractors and homebuilders ...