Homebuilding is an equation with more variables than constants. First, you have to shuffle through seemingly infinite floor plans in the hopes of finding something that meets, at least, most of your ...

Timber Age Systems has been granted a $3.8 million loan from the state of Colorado to build a factory for “panelized” homes in Mancos. The company manufactures exterior home panels using wood from ...

Panelized wood roofs have been in use for more than 40 years west of the Mississippi, where wood has always been plentiful, but the roofing system is new to regions east of the mighty river and in ...

When a snowstorm rolled through Southern Maine last winter, Colin Goodson’s neighbors were dark. But inside his factory-built house, the lights remained on, the air was toasty, and the kitchen buzzed ...

We are in the midst of a housing shortage in this country. It was predicted by the National Association of Home Builders decades ago, and, because of numerous economic issues, has not been resolved.

How do you build quality homes that are affordable for the average buyer — not just in Cleveland but across the country? It’s a question often asked and occasionally addressed. But one local real ...

Colin Goodson knows more about energy than most people. The tall, bearded Mainer is an engineer on an offshore oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico. But when it came time for him to build a home in ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...