But the advances in steel frame construction in the later 19th century allowed for much taller buildings. With mass timber buildings, wooden layers are laminated together, using nails, dowels or glue.

While no steel buildings collapsed in Northridge, roughly 50 structures collapsed in the 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake, which killed more than 6,000 people and caused $100 billion in damage.

Do you think that steel beams are only reserved for skyscrapers and malls? Nah, reconsider. Increasing numbers of homeowners ...

Timber frame and post and beam construction are both beautiful methods of constructing a house. Most people don't know the difference between the two types. Included here is a short comparison of ...

A dock facility frames a view of the Chrysler Building, ... Lewis Hine captures a portrait of a construction worker welding steel girders on the Empire State Building in New York City around 1930.