Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Q: I have a house built in the late 1970s that has large beams exposed beyond the roof line. After more than 30 years of neglect and exposure there is a good deal of dry rot in them. I think I should ...

Q. I'm getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I've been told that a wood beam will work, but I've always seen steel I-beams in other houses. Is it ...

Workers were completing a crucial phase in construction of the city’s new civic center Friday as they worked at installing steel roof beams. The building at Harper Street and Morse Boulevard is a ...

There comes a time in every rehab when the roof just has to be done. The old drywall buckets that have been collecting rain while other work gets done have got to go. There are reasons why a bad roof ...