Following-up on last month's quick review of the five basic types of building construction, according to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 220, Standard on Types of Building Construction ...

MACON, Georgia — Folks in Macon have a chance to start a new career in construction. The Construction Education Foundation of Georgia is providing free classes known as ‘Construction Ready.’ The ...

“Hybrid” is a slippery word. By one definition, anything of mixed origin or composition is a hybrid: thus, we have hybrid roses and hybrid languages. A more narrow definition has hybrids as single ...

Cordwood is a building technique that is richly embodied in sweat equity and labor intensiveness. The actual physical process of building is not seriously strenuous (the log ends are only 16″ long), ...

Lien waivers are routinely exchanged on construction projects. Even so, construction contractors should know the basics of lien waivers or risk financial loss. What is a lien waiver? In simple terms, ...