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Article
2005 March
- Differential deflection is not a structural problem, but can be a significant appearance issue.
- Designing the roof or floor system to account for dead and live load deflections of adjacent trusses is critical to providing sound solutions.
- Strongback bridging can help distribute loads and reduce deflection issues.
Article
2005 Jan/Feb
- Are you seeing the same objections to wall panels that you had with selling trusses?
- Labor demographics today will drive wall panel sales much like labor savings drove truss sales in the 1950s.
Article
2005 Jan/Feb
- Did you know that you should drive an empty forklift backward UP an incline and forward DOWN an incline?
- The building components industry provides the ultimate fork lift truck lifting, driving and loading challenge due to the wide variety of load types.
Article
2005 Jan/Feb
- WTCA has a great deal of information that can help make the inspection of trusses easier to understand and perform.
- Truss designers and truss manufacturers only provide individual truss inspection information.
- The roof or floor truss system inspection information must come from the owner, builder/framer or building designer.