A local lawmaker wants owners of buildings with steel truss roofs to have warning signs, hoping these signs might help avert a firefighting disaster like the one June 18 at the Sofa Super Store. Fire ...

The roof of the Sofa Super Store’s main showroom, where six of the firefighters’ bodies were found, was supported by a steel truss. Before his death in 2006, building construction expert Frank ...

Trusses are a fundamental tool in an engineer’s toolbox — a structurally simple way to transfer weight from one part of a roof to the walls or columns that are designed to withstand the effects of ...

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PENN TOWNSHIP, MI -- A 19-year-old Marcellus man was electrocuted while moving a metal roof truss with another employee around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23, according to police. Rocky Stoner, a 2018 ...

The new enclosure is flanked on two sides by the L-shaped walls of the house and on one side by an original freestanding brick wall. A new glass wall incorporates a pair of motorised glass entrance ...

— A framework of triangulated forms in which all loads are carried by compression or tension in each member of the frame. With apologies to the legacy of the late, great Professor Frank Brannigan, do ...

BALTIMORE - The final large steel truss from the Key Bridge collapse blocking the main federal passageway to the Port of Baltimore has been removed. The 700-foot-wide Fort McHenry Channel, with access ...

Did you know that you can roof your house with steel trusses and hit one bird with two stones? Apart from achieving a quality roof on a small budget, you also help to conserve forests. When it comes ...