Form-hugging wood and stucco cladding, ubiquitous on Bay Area homes until recently, have a new contender: integrally colored cement fiberboards that European builders have favored as rain-screen ...

Wood has been in use as both a structural and decorative material for thousands of years. Ironically, the properties that make it perform heroically as a structural material—high flexural strength, ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.) the Advanced ICT Research Institute, ASTRODESIGN, Inc. (President and CEO: NANBA Toyoaki), ...