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A Baltimore-area builder with 30 years of experience is discouraged with what he sees in the building industry: strict building codes but poorly trained carpenters.

Milwaukee's M12 Jacket uses an M12 battery to stay warm for up to six hours.

Rugged cooperation and shared housing won the West

With help from a friend, I've decided to learn SketchUp and enter the 21st century.

Calvert Investments surveys the 10 largest publicly traded homebuilders on their efforts to integrate sustainability and improved resource conservation into their offerings

If there was ever a project to demonstrate the usefulness and versatility of SketchUp, it is Pat's Studio/Workshop design process. Follow along and learn ways to work through design issues…

Here's a way to make a rail fitting that's customized to your particular staircase.

Identify this tool and tell us how to use it for a chance to be published in the magazine.

The housing industry maintains its opposition to the panel’s proposed limitations on mortgage eligibility for the MID. But for the time being, those proposals face a more immediate threat: a…

Veteran carpenter Larry Haun continues his popular autobiographical series touching on the history -- and the possible future -- of houses in America, and the way we live in them.