Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn’t ...

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Because light-frame construction is usually the best choice from the standpoint of cost and ease of construction, yet is accorded the lowest basic allowable areas, it is to the designer’s advantage to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new housing development set to open in Folsom, California, in March is being built with a unique framing technology and design by Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House ...

Wood pointed to a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan in the 1990s to illustrate how strong Sekisui buildings are built. “We had roughly 177,000 homes that had been built at that point,” he said.

But to answer a reader's question, the house is not the oldest wood-frame house in the nation. "That seems unlikely," one expert, Scott T. Hanson, said with a chuckle.