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This presentation provides information on sealed Truss Placement Diagrams for the 2012 or 2015 International Building Code.
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This presentation provides inspection and quality assurance requirements for metal plate connected wood trusses.
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This presentation provides information on cantilevered sill plates and use with metal plate connected wood trusses.
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This presentation provides information on sealed truss placement diagrams in relation to the International Residential Code.
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This presentation provides information on and requirements for sprinkler systems and metal plate connected wood trusses.
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This program provides information on metal plate connected wood truss floor systems and managing vibrations.
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Truss placement diagrams (TPDs) may be one of the more misunderstood documents in our industry.
This project first featured in SBC Industry News piqued many readers’ interest. Now back by popular demand, this amazing 80'-wide Ponderosa Pine log truss built by Deadwood Log Homes shows that trusses come in all sizes—including enormous. So enormous, in fact, that Deadwood’s owner, Rick Johnson, has applied to have the truss considered by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest log truss in the U.S.
Weather, and how it affects truss and joist performance, has long been a topic of uncertainty for component manufacturers and framers.
This presentation provides construction details for residential deck ledger attachment to metal plate connected wood truss floor systems.
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This presentation provides information and analysis of fire retardant-treated wood and metal plate connected wood truss designs.
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When the new Bell Park Pavilion in Greenwood, AR, needed a roof, Capital Structures provided a solution with these glulam beam trusses.
This presentation provides guidance on the structural capacity of floor truss ribbon boards and whether intermediate blocking is required under wall studs.
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Many potential complaints and problems can be mitigated by an astute truss technician during the design phase.
A lot of engineering goes into the design of metal plate connected wood trusses, including the connector plates themselves.
Over the past 35 years, The Truss Company has quietly grown into one of the largest component manufacturing operations on the West Coast.
Congratulations to Truss Systems Hawaii, Inc. whose photo received the most votes in SBC’s Online Photo Contest.
- Understanding how the computer software automatically loads a truss can help designers avoid unintended consequences when optimizing trusses.
- When fascia loads are missing from a project, there is incorrect loading on the jack trusses, sub girders and the corner girder/hip jack.
- Missing loads can lead to extensive repairs and may even require that the trusses be revised.
A full-scale truss bracing demo was an eye-catching feature of the BCMC 2017 show floor.
An unusual project with an uncommon shape presented the kind of design challenge truss technicians don’t see every day.
How’s your I-joist and floor truss business? SBCA Marketing Committee Chair Jess Lohse wants to know.
optimization using SBCRI truss assembly test data.
When a homeowner asked for the contemporary look of a curved roof without the expense of beam or steel construction, the designer knew the answer was trusses.
How one CM introduces building officials to the entire scope of work that goes into truss manufacturing.
Innovative thinking and careful construction allowed Truss Craft to give a condemned structure new life.
For Cascade, gambrel trusses were just one unique aspect of an entirely unusual project
Mr. Truss kicked off the 2011 SBCA Annual Meeting at BCMC in Indianapolis with some important information about fall protection.