Home Depot’s Latest Acquisition Targets Kitchen Sector
The big home improvement chain continues to build out its business in the home design category. With the new home construction sector continuing to stay challenged, Home Depot has made an additional move to strengthen its business in finished products and home services. In late December the Home Depot subsidiary, Construction Resources Company, announced it […]
A Medieval Carpentry Technique Helped Rebuild Notre-Dame
The reconstruction of the legendary cathedral in Paris used “scribing,” a technique employed in its original construction. When French officials made the decision five years ago to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral as close as possible to its original design following a massive and devastating fire in April of 2019, it meant using a carpentry technique that […]
Registration Opens for 2025 Mass Timber Conference
As the mass timber movement continues to gain momentum next year’s conference is already well into preparation. It’s the largest gathering in the world for the entire mass timber sector, focusing on the supply chain for the construction method gaining increased popularity in the U.S. and around the world. Now in its ninth year, the […]
Building Trade Steps Up in Wake of Hurricane Helene
The latest natural disaster caused billions of dollars of damage in a path from the Florida Big Bend into the Western Carolinas. The toll will be staggering when it’s all added up following the destructive bent Hurricane Helene took and while it will eventually result in a boom in the rebuilding trade in the affected […]
New Survey Reports 94% of Builders Can’t Hire Enough Workers
The Associated General Contractors of America, which did the survey, is trying to address the shortage with career-building programs. The new study from the AGC reports that 94 percent of contractors say they are having a hard time hiring enough people for their open positions. The survey talked to firms across the building trade and […]
Paged Plywood Is Coming to the U.S. Market
The company, Poland’s largest plywood producer, exhibited at this year’s International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta. After debuting at IWF 2024 in August the company is now building out its distribution network in the U.S. to bring its line of advanced plywood solutions for a wide spectrum of industries, from transportation, through construction and to the […]
3D Printed Buildings Have Their Limits, Walmart Discovered
A new Walmart expansion project shows that 3D printing is not as efficient or cost-saving as traditional construction techniques. While the building trade has watched the emergence of structures made with 3D printing machines with some trepidation, the recent example of its use for a new Walmart structure seems to indicate it is not going […]
Lumber Prices Don’t Get Usual Spring Boost
As the building and construction sectors continue to struggle, reduced demand for lumber is depressing prices this year. In the spring a builder’s thoughts always turn to buying wood. But not so much this year. With both residential and commercial building not getting its usual bump in the spring season, lumber prices are at levels […]
The Biggest Mass Timber Building in U.S. Planned for Oakland, CA
The stakes keep getting higher – literally and figuratively – for mass timber construction with a 28-story structure in the works in California. The past few years have seen bigger and bigger mass timber buildings, particularly in the Pacific Northwest and Upper Midwest regions of the country and now a new record-setter is being planned […]
The Five Biggest Things That Worry the Construction Industry
A new report identifies the biggest concerns commercial general contractors and construction managers now have. Business sectors are always keeping their guard up against challenges they face and the construction trade is no different. A new study from QBE North America, the New York-based arm of the Australian insurance company, identifies five specific areas that […]