"We're on the last legs of that patience. Because the urgency is acute," said an advocate for more affordable housing.

AYER — Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts, a local branch of the international nonprofit, recently launched a home-building project on Newton Street, the third such project to be built ...

Home Depot has acquired GMS Inc., a building material distributor, as it continues to push for business from professional contractors.

At the School of Architecture, students conceptualize, design and build housing for a real client — all in their first year. The Jim Vlock First Year Building Project was founded in 1967 and is ...

Enquiries about 'big ticket' home improvements increased in the last quarter, according to new data from Checkatrade. While the quarter-on-quarter figures were strong, the year-on-year picture was, ...

If you are seriously pursuing a newly constructed house, how much can you learn about home building from watching television programs? After several marathon sessions viewing more than 50 videos sent ...

When Hunter Jenson was signing up for sophomore year classes at Skyview High, geometry sounded a little boring. But geometry and construction, a course taught at the Billings Career Center, caught his ...

The editors of Building Design+Construction reached out to our readers’ firms for office and office-to-residential projects completed in the last 18 months. We collected over 40 projects, including ...

A new single-story house fits snuggly on a shady hillside in the Fair Haven Heights section of New Haven. Steel cladding on its façade is intentionally rusted, evoking a reddish-brown sandstone ledge ...