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 ...

After he left Georgia Tech in 2019 with a degree in mechanical engineering, Mateo Atwi returned to New Iberia and started a business with his brother Tiago creating buildings out of shipping ...

It pokes out of the earth like a giant shiny Erector set at Lot 73 of the Wentworth Golf Club Estates subdivision near here. Passers-by often stop to ponder the awkward steel skeleton. Is it some ...

More than 70 percent of new-home construction in Hawaii uses cold-steel frame studs in place of traditional wooden two-by-fours. “No other state comes even close,” says Tim Waite of the Hawaii Steel ...

The U.S. manufacturer of UltraSTEEL interior framing is retooling its factories in North America in hopes of forever changing the face of the humble steel stud. Because the product's cold-rolled, ...

DALLAS – The 15-second commercial opens with a shot of good-sized woods full of trees. “To frame the average home,” a voice announces, “it takes one acre of trees.” The image switches. Now it’s the ...

Doug and Ozzie Kemp are used to neighbors’ questions about that “steel thing” being built in their midst. The Kemps know that the land is zoned for residential, not commercial, use and concede that ...