We need to stop building with wood framing. The wind-driven fires devastating parts of Los Angeles right now show why.

Sekisui uses sustainable imported wood from Finland in its construction. “What we’ve been doing in the U.S. for decades is conventional 2-by-4 construction using conventional studs and headers ...

Sekisui uses sustainable imported wood from Finland in its construction. “What we’ve been doing in the U.S. for decades is conventional two-by-four construction using conventional studs and ...

And the house's wooden frame has drawn no small amount of that attention at times. But to answer a reader's question, the house is not the oldest wood-frame house in the nation. "That seems ...