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 ...

Steel beams supporting the 16th floor of the ill-fated Hard Rock Hotel project in downtown New Orleans were so “grossly underdesigned” that the deadly collapse of the unfinished building “was waiting ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Defects that occurred during fabrication, along with holes cut into the steel, are likely what caused two structural steel beams to crack just six weeks after the $2.2 billion ...

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 ...

When the Chrysler Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline 90 years ago, it was the most magnificent skyscraper ever built and the tallest in the world, a gleaming testament to American ingenuity ...