Paul Freeman was just another college kid sitting in a lecture hall in 1977 when he heard his calling.”It became clear that my boyhood home with its weathered dark beams, gunstock posts, and ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

Q What’s your opinion on timber frame construction for a home compared with traditional stick-built designs? A “Stick-built” refers to the studs, joists and trusses that are used to build typical ...

Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber ...

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - Doug Steimle, principal at Schaefer Inc., has long been known as “the wood guy.” The nickname stemmed from Steimle’s expertise in the light-frame wood ...

Acting as your own general contractors on the building of your house is not for the faint of heart. It takes time, money and, most of all, vision. It helps to do a little rehearsing. “We spent three ...