As the Q3 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the home ...

The siding you choose for your home has to look good — that’s a given. But it also has to protect it from the elements, and ...

The idea of a straw building might bring to mind a medieval homestead, or perhaps the fairy-tale dwelling of The Three Little Pigs. Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building ...

The heat is on and temperature records keep getting shattered. In June of this year, more than 60 percent of the world population faced extreme heat that was made at least three times more likely by ...

The construction materials price index fell 3.2% in November. This was a larger decline than the 2.2% reported for the whole economy. November prices were still 5.0% above a year earlier but ...

Materials prices for nonresidential projects in December were 3% below the price peak in July 2006. While the materials price index for nonresidential projects edged up 0.2% in December, this was ...

Concrete is the unsung hero of residential construction. From driveways and sidewalks to patios and, most importantly, ...

Increasingly, due to the warming climate, wildfires are becoming more common than in the recent past, posing a threat to towns and rural development. Part of the reason has to do with how wildfires ...

The Trump administration's tariffs on imported goods from Canada, Mexico and China -- some already in place, others set to take effect in a few weeks -- have already begun driving up the cost of ...

The American Building Materials Alliance (ABMA) has announced the national rollout of its federal housing proposal, Building ...

Increasingly, due to the warming climate, wildfires are becoming more common than in the recent past, posing a threat to towns and rural development. Part of the reason has to do with how wildfire ...