We are adding a master bedroom and family room "wing" to our house. It will have a standard pitched roof. Do you recommend having the roof stick built with lumber or using pre-made roof trusses? — Arn ...

Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...

SANTA MARIA 77 Dozens of homes in Santa Maria are being built with lightweight, triangular roof trusses composed of lumber held together with a sheet metal fastener bearing hooks 3/8-of-an-inch deep.

Most new home construction now utilizes pre-engineered and built roof trusses, as opposed to traditional rafter framing to form the roof structure of the house. This type of framing construction is ...

WHILE there are a few misconceptions around timbers fire performance, structural timber for roofing is both commonplace and performs well under fire conditions. As with every aspect of building, ...

The registration of the professional designation officially took place late last year, when the SAQA board registered 'certified timber roof truss designer' as an additional professional designation ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Construction of the new Vikings stadium hit several key milestones this week. With just over a year to go before construction is completed, several new features are starting to ...

The failure comes in the wake of a mid-March blizzard that dumped more than 4 feet of snow on parts of northern Michigan.