Framing

Available as single-shot, semiautomatic or full automatic, these low-velocity tools are the ones carpenters choose when driving fasteners into concrete or steelby Bruce Greenlaw

They're as common on job sites as circular saws, but if you're not using your pneumatic nailer properly, maybe you should stick with your hammerby Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Framing the entire gable while it's flat on the deck is fast and easy. Raising it is a challenge and a danger.by John Spier

Sifting through the wreckage of Hurricane Andrew to learn why some houses survived and some didn'tby Charles Miller

by Eugene F. Oakley

A structural engineer explains what happens to a wood-frame building in an earthquake and how it can resist collapseby Ralph Gareth Gray

by Ed Wilson

by Don Dunkley

by Marc Davis