A four-part journey into the layers, techniques, and thinking behind the OA Awesome Wall

A large white pine dictates excavation, which dictates the foundation, which dictates the framing, which defines the living space.

A new show about extreme climate construction is interrupted by a global pandemic

HOLY COW! If you blow hard enough, you can blow through OSB!

How to tighten walls without turning them into mush

Use ASHRAE 62.2 to get a baseline, count your exhaust needs, and adjust the baseline to your needs

Air pressure simplified into an understandable experiment

A podcast that explains scientific concepts to regular carpenters like us. Engineers explain the concept in detail, and ProTradeCraft breaks it down into bite-sized nuggets to make info snacking easier.

Heat goes from more to less. Any questions?

The Tyvek weather-resistive barrier can be a water barrier and an air barrier, but it is NOT a vapor barrier

Barriers, air gaps, continuous insulation, and redundancy give durability to a new crawlspace

An overview of the premiere season of this new construction show. We'll follow MARK IV Builders as they demonstrate smart building envelope practices.

Three shelf bracket joinery methods yield mostly no surprises—except how strong the second and third-place joints are

A mostly-robotic factory builds tight, healthy homes with hardly any waste

A look back at a resilient renovation to a 100-year old house

Flood-resistant construction is a critical piece of resilient design and construction

Trees and shrubs are fuel, but now neighbors are a greater risk

Wildfire is a growing threat to buildings all over North America; the main solution is recognizing the problem and looking to solve it