We all dream of a maintenance-free home. But with a Lustron house, it’s the selling point. These prefab houses from the 1940s are practically indestructible. Made of porcelain-coated stainless ...

Dear Jim: We are planning to build our dream home. It must be strong to resist severe storms and also be efficient. It seems as though most businesses and factories are built from steel. Would this ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — James Roberts got his start transforming recycled steel shipping containers into inexpensive environmentally-friendly living spaces. Now he's taking his company TANYR to a new ...

When she was a kid, way back in 1949, kids teased Nancy Danforth Norfleet about her family's new all-steel home on Jermain Street. Advertisement Article continues below this ad "They'd say that we'd ...

A quiet revolution--save for the whine of screw guns--is underway at the corner of Culver Drive and Bryan Avenue in Irvine, where Lennar Homes is building 203 homes with steel-framed panels. The ...

CLEVELAND, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Majestic Steel USA today announced a strategic investment and leadership transition at Steel Homes, a modular single-family home manufacturer headquartered in ...

Dear Jim: I need to replace my roof, and I read a previous column that indicated metal roofs qualify for an energy tax credit. Are metal roofs worth the extra cost, and how do they conserve energy?

Following the popular Rusty House in London, we've collected 10 residential buildings with striking Corten-steel – a type of weathering-steel – facades in this roundup. Among the buildings featured ...

Sorry, baby boomers, but the 1950s are officially history. It might not seem like that long ago, but when the comic books you read, the TV you watched and the toys ...

Buck Holzemer lives in a blue steel box that shimmers under the setting sun. Even the inside walls are steel, he noted, knocking on a kitchen wall to prompt a tinny reverberation. But Holzemer's ...