This year at the San Francisco Bay Area Maker Faire, trying to juggle my own interests (talk to cool people) and my 5-year-old son's (build or break stuff), we both hit paydirt at the same time when ...

Question: I want to add ceiling lighting and a ceiling fan to my living room, but no wiring is up there. I would like to add decorative box beams and run the wiring through them. How can I do this?

Dear Jim: My children have finished school and left, so I want to remodel for more openness and energy efficiency. I plan to knock out some walls and add ceiling box beams. How can I install the box ...

At the prefabricated beam factory of the first contract section of the Shenzhen Outer Ring Expressway Phase III, invested and constructed by the municipal state-owned enterprise Shenzhen Expressway, a ...

In view of the growing interest in these different forms of structural beams, Mr. Fredrik Winberg, Cofounder and Chairman of Biteam, anticipates that use of these novel box-beams will expand in other ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - A building constructed out of posts and beams milled from local trees damaged during storms now holds up the University of Michigan's first student-built, off-the-grid building. The ...

Dear Andy: This is an excellent idea for adding lighting and a fan to a room without access to existing wiring. Even if you did not need access to electrical wiring, adding box beams can be an ...