Fact checked by Emily Estep Identifying a load-bearing wall is essential before you remove or alter it to change your home's layout. A load-bearing wall supports the structure above it, like floors or ...

MIT aims to make house construction more sustainable by using discarded plastics to print structural components.

Briefly, structural masonry is a construction system in which the walls of the building perform a structural function, using masonry units arranged in a way that is self-supporting and load-bearing.

Some support columns are easy to move. Others are so hard it makes your brain hurt to think about all that needs to be done. (Tim Carter) Perspective by Tim Carter Q: I have this load-bearing post ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 54th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary. We’re excited to publish their tale of buying and renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first ...