There’s been chatter around alternative building materials in the fire rebuild, but do ultra-high-net-worth buyers care? The audience for The Real Deal’s “Building Luxury” panel held Jan. 27 in ...

Disasters in California, Hawaii and the Southeast are spurring growth in both industries as owners of ravaged properties grow increasingly open to alternative rebuilding methods that could save time ...

This large, generously illustrated manual is an excellent primer on owner-designed and site-inspired building. Snell, who wrote the eco-friendly The Good House Book, and Callahan, a more conventional ...

After Jerry Camarillo’s childhood home in Altadena, Calif., burned down, he was determined to rebuild the one-story, midcentury ranch house exactly as it was before the Los Angeles wildfires. That all ...

In 1966, Jerry Camarillo’s parents moved from an apartment near St. Andrew’s Catholic Church off of Raymond Avenue to a home in Altadena. Over the years, there were remodels, giving it an open feeling ...

Proponents contend that this method lowers overall construction costs by reducing material and labor, is more energy efficient, leads to less material waste, and is completed within a fraction of the ...