Are you after an adventurous project with grand designs? A fresh beginning with an eco-friendly, new-build home designed to your specifications could be just the ticket. “Over the past three decades, ...

A fire that ravaged a timber-frame building in Edinburgh last month was the latest in a series of similar incidents that have blighted the industry over the past few years. Thomas Lane examines what ...

Roundwood timber framing means working with materials sourced straight from the forest, using nature’s shapes to create the structure, employing techniques that can easily be learnt and passed on, and ...

Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Learn to Timber Frame (Storey Publishing, 2016) is a guidebook for beginners, showing exactly how to build one small ...

Using our native softwoods and 'in the round' construction, this innovative technique results in beautiful buildings with high environmental credentials In a clearing in our woodland at the ...

This full time-lapse build was late winter on an existing building site. The old building was torn down (hence the weirdly ...

Not many people advertise in the paper for volunteer help to build their house. Herb Nadelhoffer did, and, though only a solitary individual showed up when work began, ”when we started cutting, a lot ...

More and more buildings in the UK are being constructed using timber frames, according to figures from the UK Timber Frame Association. The UKTFA estimates timber frame house building grew by 3.3% in ...

The nine-storey scheme in central London will be the UK’s largest all-timber frame office building.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...