A TIMBER manufacturer in Aberdeenshire has more than doubled staff numbers and won £12 million of orders in its first year of business. Kirkwood Timber Frame, based in Sauchen, Inverurie, specialises ...

There’s one sector of the homebuilding market that seems to be weathering the recent economic storm better than the rest of its industry — kit homes. Kit homes are houses built from packages of ...

A timber-frame home is a celebration of wood on a massive scale. Tall posts grow from the floor and connect overhead in a soaring network of beams, rafters and braces joined with glovelike precision.

In Colonial times, they did it the old-fashioned way. They built houses with massive skeletons of wooden beams–and no nails. This type of construction–called timber framing–was an import from the Old ...