A USD professor designs an innovative solution to California's housing crisis: a sustainable, fire-resistant home assembled in three days using mass timber panels.

In response to the latest wildfires, JDB Builders Inc., a design/build contractor with in-house architects, engineers, and ...

Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...

DENVER ( KDVR) — A local former high school building had a moment of fame in a Saturday Night Live skit that aired last weekend. The SNL skit starts with an image setting the scene at The American ...

Vinyl siding is the most commonly used type in America, but it's a poor option for fire-prone areas. Instead, consider these ...

As wildfires ravage California and climate change intensifies extreme weather events across the United States, an innovative building material is gaining traction: Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC). W ...

A third of American homes, or about 48 million properties, are at risk of wildfires. Here's how to protect yours.

With wildfires increasing year after year, more homeowners are thinking about the future of their houses — and whether they have a future at all as the climate rapidly changes.

A third step is “hardening” existing structures with fireproof building materials. Black, who built his own house, said he chose cement siding and a metal roof. If homeowners take these steps ...

The home's building materials check a lot of other boxes for Hawks. The roof is fire-resistant, which is known as "class A," the gutters are metal, and the windows are made of double-paned tempered ...