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In Pursuit of a Better Performing Truss

When it comes to getting the right structural building components for a project, cost isn’t everything, but how do you convince the building designer? Communication is key.

Truss Industry Standard of Care Issues: Part 4

Truss industry standard of care items are contained throughout ANSI/TPI 1,* The National Standard for Metal Plate Connected Wood Truss Construction. The focus of this article is ANSI/TPI 1 Chapter 2, Section 2.3.5.1 and companion Section 2.4.5.1, which require a truss designer to prepare truss design drawings (TDD) based on design criteria and requirements set forth in the construction documents. The truss industry should expect to get this information from the building designer (BD), which may include the building owner, contractor or a registered design professional (RDP). Particularly when there is an RDP for the building, the design community expects the truss industry to design components that conform to the truss framing plan and specified design parameters within the construction documents, unless instructed otherwise in writing.

 

Addressing Industry Standards Development

  • There are many published installation guides available for product-specific applications, but few account for framing tolerances when dissimilar materials are integrated into the overall building and the expectations for overall performance.
  • NFC’s Standards Development Sub-committee will begin outlining framing practices performed everyday where tolerances and known good performance have not been detailed in depth.
  • The subcommittee will take a “through the eyes of a framer” point of view and provide step-by-step implementation guidelines and options.

Top 10 Employee Training Tools: Material Handling

A look at safe and proper handling and storage

Good Information Leads to Good Decision-Making

SBCRI Testing & SBCA Research Reports can transform your market.

Trusses with a Twist

Woodhaven designed and built the roof and floor trusses for the Spruce Street Shul. Woodhaven also supplied the lumber and hardware for the project.

Truss Industry Standard of Care Issues: Part 3

The first two Standard of Care articles discussed deferred submittals and truss-to-truss connections. This article explores truss minimum required bearing width issues from the perspective of the design community.

Reevaluating Your Investment Strategy

  • A lot has changed in the components industry over the past two decades, and a new Framing the American Dream (FAD) project would allow us to quantify just how much, as well as detail our product’s benefits over other framing methods.
  • Beyond FAD, SBCA is also focusing on helping component manufacturers across the country fight an unfair provision in the model building code, R501.3.
  • As you think about investing in the future of your business, think about how much you’re willing to invest this year in these two projects to ensure a bright future for our industry.

FrameSAFE’s Additional Training Resources: Toolbox Talks & Jobsite Posters

  • You must have continuous training in order to have a training system work.
  • In addition to FrameSAFE and Toolbox Talks, NFC will release FrameSAFE Safety Posters in early 2015.
  • FrameSAFE is more than just a safety manual; we’ve created it to be a training tool that workers and employers can use to find everything they need in one product.

Machine Guarding: Protect Your Most Important Assets

While one of the most critical concerns in a manufacturing facility, machine guarding isn’t as simple or easy as it sounds. 

Top 10 Employee Training Tools: Driver Training

Good truck drivers make good decisions.

Focusing on Fall Protection Best Practices

  • When there’s no effective tie-off point for a building, framers have to use a job-specific best practices approach.
  • Both Hull and Shifflett agree it is in the best interest of component manufacturers to work with framers to create best practice approaches to fall protection.
  • The long-term goal is to host an online database that GCs and framing teams can visit to know who in their industry participates, trains and follows the same safety guidelines.

How Loud Is Too Loud?

With no visible trauma or scars, it’s easy for hearing loss to go unnoticed, but the good news is, it’s preventable.

Tending to Deflection: Improving the Performance & Serviceability of Trusses

Many potential complaints and problems can be mitigated by an astute truss technician during the design phase.

Reaching Peak Efficiency

Lean Six Sigma is a mountainous challenge, but there are some basic ways to prepare for the climb.

Faces of the Industry: Justin Richardson (Sales Manager, Richco Structures)

“We wouldn’t be where we are today without all our employees. They’re the lifeblood of what we do.”

Execute Your Hearing Conservation Program

Three key steps to get you headed down the right path.

The Efficiency Edge

Finding the best, fastest, most efficient process has always been part of the culture for this component manufacturer.