DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

LAKE MARY (CBSMiami/AP) — A driver in central Florida was critically hurt when a pair of metal beams came crashing through is windshield. Steven McCourtm, 60, was on I-4 near Altamonte Springs when a ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Do you think that steel beams are only reserved for skyscrapers and malls? Nah, reconsider. Increasing numbers of homeowners and construction professionals are going all-in on steel, and with good ...