One of the basic choices home buyers in Central Florida face is whether to choose a house built with concrete blocks or with a wooden frame. Block-built houses used to be the rage in Florida.

It’s also cheaper to build with compared to concrete and steel. What’s more, a greater share of today’s lean labor force is able to frame a building with wood compared to bricklayers and ...

Stone and concrete ... or the wood-and-paper houses of the city later renamed Tokyo, which used to burn so often that blazes were called “the flowers of Edo.” Today’s wood-frame structures ...

A new study of the property insurance costs for wood frame and concrete mid-rise residential buildings has found a substantial gap in the risks and insurance rates between the two building systems.

Europeans do not like the flimsy wood stick-frame construction used for so many US houses; they prefer more solid materials like concrete or brick. CLT was meant to make residential construction ...

"In Central Florida, almost 100 percent of apartments are frame construction,'' said ... the greater cost of masonry and concrete block construction. "Wood in this market is still the most ...