Now in its fourth week, a new course on thatching devised by the Heritage Council, in partnership with Kilkenny and Carlow ...

I love details. Thirty years ago, I built my first craftsman structure kit and found out what details could do to “raise the ...

Have you ever noticed a small porch on a roof while walking through a neighborhood and wondered what it’s for? You might be ...

Material Components for Android (MDC-Android) help developers execute Material Design. Developed by a core team of engineers and UX designers at Google, these components enable a reliable development ...

A new kind of roof coating developed by an ASU spinoff company is having some success in cooling the buildings it’s on. The ...

Bill Gates became, at 31 years old, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Personal computers were rapidly becoming ubiquitous and Gates’s company, Microsoft, made the software (the ...

If you're in the market for a new roof, there are many things to consider. While cost, color, and the latest in material engineering often float top of mind for consumers, what might be great for ...

Work has officially started on a mammoth 12-month project to rescue a 15 th century Tithe Barn in Upminster from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register. The register gives an annual snapshot of ...

Researchers at Caltech, led by Professor Chiara Daraio, have developed an intriguing new type of material that behaves like both a solid and a liquid, depending on the type of stress applied. This ...

The damage was some of the worst he had seen from a tornado, Henwood added. "Roofs off houses, trees into houses, trees snapped like twigs, power poles, the concrete power poles all snapped and broken ...

One of London’s largest and oldest thatched roofs, on a 15th-century Tithe Barn, is currently being removed and replaced with fresh thatching as part of a large restoration project. Upminster tithe ...

Seven Hampshire fire crews rushed to Warsash to surround a blaze at a thatched roof cottage tonight, and more will stay overnight as the incident continues to be scaled down. Crews from Hightown ...