We’re getting a lot of calls to just make sure that homes are properly ready for the embers when they come,” Riley Logsdon, ...

Weather is getting more erratic and destructive. Here's how you can prepare your home to survive future natural disasters.

Having never built a house before, Dan decided his first would be his dream home — a sustainable, off-grid hemp house in Tasmania, rendered with a horse poo mix and with an outdoor composting toilet.

Wood engineered for strength and safety offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.

"These are pretty much absolutely fireproof, flameproof materials ... Tiny beads of perlite, a lightweight volcanic glass used for insulation, blow into Morey's hair as she walks around a ...

Metal siding and steel siding are also easy to install, and aluminum siding is also fireproof and pest-resistant. The downsides of metal siding are that it’s a poor source of insulation and that ...