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 ...

I have never understood how we as fire fighters continue to be killed in buildings constructed of light-weight steel trusses. These units also referred to as bar joists are utilized in lieu of wood ...

PARIS TWP. Dutchcraft Truss & Metal is expanding because of a greater demand for trusses in the home construction industry. Company owner Reggie Stoltzfus is adding a 9,449-square-foot addition to the ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

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 ...

The construction of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat domed Las Vegas stadium hit a snag last week, but officials say it’s nothing to be alarmed about. One of the massive steel canopy trusses was ...

Early in 2002, Craig McNay was having lunch with his old friend Bill Gerdes, a steel fabricator from Quincy, Ill., when he mentioned that he was serving as the owner's rep for a Miglin Properties ...

A new analysis could help architects and builders reduce the carbon footprint of truss structures, the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings. Buildings are a big contributor ...