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On a warm October day, six kids tromped up Pancake Hill at Moretown’s Pony Farm toward a half-built A-frame structure they’d worked on over the last month. The 7- to 12-year-olds gathered in a circle, ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

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 ...

First of the critical building features is construction method. Building construction influences both fire behavior and structural stability under fire conditions. Combustible construction such as ...