"When you know how hard it is to build a complicated roof, you tend to start designing roofs that look attractive but maybe aren't quite as complicated, so that the affordability aspect of the house is there. You're building in the value engineering in the beginning of the process instead of designing the house and having it valued engineered after it's done."

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

Building Resilience is a show about extreme climate construction and houses that can weather the storm through resilient construction and design

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

The little things, like flashing and weather-lapping, keep the big things standing. Durability is becoming a lost art

This R-58 wall has I-joists screwed to the outside and dense-packed with cellulose. It is also one of the four best in 'BS and Beer' circles

Building codes are not sharp knives inspectors use to chop off the heads of contractors, they are books full of options for constructing safe and efficient buildings

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

To install a good-looking board and batten trim, divide the wall space available by the intended spacing, rather than the batten spacing by the wall. Make sense?

A thick wall with exterior insulation with airtight details for the foundation and ceiling

Sound is energy. Stopping sound usually means absorbing it with mass

This building is designed with the sun—rather than with dimensional lumber—in mind

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

Different proportions of the same four ingredients yield different strength mixes of concrete for structural and non-structural parts of a building

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

Ray tracing animations show how sound in an enclosed room reflects off of hard surfaces, creating reverberations and echoes that can make spoken language unintelligible.

Like billiards, with acoustics it's all about the angles