A spacious new house in Wicklow features an Irish-manufactured closed-panel timber frame system along with impressive thermal performance and airtightness. Lenny Antonelli reports “I always wanted to ...

Despite reducing labour costs on site, you will have to tack on the several months of lead time while the frame (external walls, internal walls, and roof) is manufactured by your supplier — and timber ...

I built this woodshed using the plan in A Timber-Frame Woodshed as a starting point. I made some minor modifications from the original plans, but all in all it looks like it will last well into the ...

Dublin’s skyline could be dotted with “plyscrapers” in years to come if planners embrace a new timber frame technique for sustainable building, a conference will hear on Monday. The emergence of mass ...

In this episode of Cabin in the Woods, we build a small timber frame porch over the front walk door, and once completed have ...

In 2004 only 23% of all new houses in Ireland were built using timber frame technology while in Scotland, which enjoys - or perhaps suffers is the appropriate word - a similar climate to ours, the ...

Senior politicians at the Labour Party Conference have discussed increasing the use of structural timber to ramp up the rate of housebuilding across the UK. The Structural Timber Association (STA) ...

Students learning traditional building skills have described the “honour” of building a new nature hide at the headquarters of a foundation set up by King Charles ...