DEAR TIM: My family is growing and I need to move my home office. I looked up into the attic over my garage that’s built with standard roof trusses. There’s plenty of room to create an office. How do ...

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.

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 ...

Dear Jason: Look for a new contractor. Special designs of roof trusses are available, some not priced much higher than standard trusses, specifically designed for attic storage areas or full rooms.

DEAR TIM: My family is growing and I need to move my home office. I looked up into the attic over my garage that’s built with standard roof trusses. There’s plenty of room to create an office. How do ...

Wood truss construction surged in popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, but back then most buildings that used metal-plate-connected wood trusses had flat ceilings. With today’s CAD and BIM technology, ...

Last week I was downloading some photos from my digital camera, and I stumbled across hundreds of forgotten photos I shot while my daughter’s new home was being built on Mount Desert Island, off the ...

The power saws traditionally used to cut roof-truss components have up to 20 axes of motion, waste time between setups, and generate tons of scrap. Engineers at Alpine Engineering Products have ...

Just off the Las Vegas Strip, and within the footprint of the world’s tallest observation wheel, contractors’ weekly lifts of massive 315-ft-long steel trusses are key features of the $375-million ...