GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – Former Wood Construction and Remodeling (WCR) owner Leighton “Joe” Wood must pay $1,194,930.23 in restitution to victims whose projects weren’t completed and could spend up ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WJHL) — Former remodeling and construction company owner Leighton “Joe” Wood, who allegedly defrauded dozens of customers, has been using bankruptcy protection to avoid accountability ...

Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

Cost-effective, code-compliant and sustainable, mid-rise wood construction is gaining the attention of design professionals nationwide, who see it as a way to achieve higher density housing at lower ...

Building tall buildings out of wood instead of steel offers a lot of benefits, most notably that it considerably cuts the carbon footprint of new construction. But the properties of wood mean that all ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Carl Pruscha, an Austrian architect who mainly dedicated his professional career to investigating and working closely in the field of regional architecture in the Eastern world, a territory that was ...