Raising five daughters, Kathy and Pat Kunst preferred to stay at vacation rentals instead of hotels when they traveled as a family. “We rented a whole house,” Kathy Kunst said. “It was just nice to ...

The red, white and yellow wooden lighthouse doesn’t send a warning beacon. Instead it is an icon luring people from land and sea to Buzz’s Lighthouse. Boaters pull up to the docks and can head inside ...

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 ...

The Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is getting a full makeover next year and will be closed from Jan. 1 to June 2025. The lighthouse, built in 1871, is the only wooden lighthouse still intact on the Oregon ...

Keywords: NEESWood project. Light-frame woodframe structures. Seismic performance. Full-scale tests. Multistory structures. Experimental tests. Shaking table tests ...