The April 2015 earthquake severely damaged the unique cultural treasures of the Kathmandu Valley. Reconstruction of the ...

The Maldives may be synonymous with water activities, but the eco-focused Sun Siyam Resorts also enchants with a host of land ...

Adobe is one of the world's earliest building materials, commonly used in the southwest United States and throughout Mesoamerica. This video presents a step-by-step instructional showcase of the ...

Poor people living in thatched-roof houses are also highly vulnerable to snakebite, as snakes enter such homes in search of rats, their food.

The moment when some roof tiles on the Fengyang Drum Tower came loose and caused it to partially collapse was caught on video. In the video, tiles are seen falling from the building's roof onto ...

The National Lottery Heritage Fund announces funding of £739,878 to the Construction Industry Training Board Northern Ireland (CITB NI) for plans to prevent the skill of thatching being lost forever ...

A curious dog looks over the rubble and new construction of a home in Khumjung, one of the villages devastated by aftershocks from the April 25 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.

Often associated with chocolate box cottages in the English countryside, thatched homes actually come in all shapes and sizes and can be found around the world, with such techniques first being ...

The Managing Director of Laralek Ultimate Construction Company, Olalekan Adebiyi, on Saturday, debunked media reports on the purported leakage of the roof at the white house section of the ...

A construction worker was seriously injured after falling 20 feet from the roof while working on the new middle school in Nibley.

A new school in Donegal is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save Ireland's disappearing thatched roofs.

Anu Kumar On the ground floor, there’s an enclosed kitchen that leads to an alfresco living and dining room, partially covered by the refurbished thatched roof.