About 80 years ago, the bowstring truss roof became a popular construction element in the United States. Prior to 1960, it was reportedly one of the most common design types for commercial and ...

One of the most easily identifiable (when able to be visualized) roof trusses is the bowstring truss. An elevated and rear view of the building pictured above reveals a bowstring truss.

It might look like putting up roof beams is hard work, but it's not. When you build a new house or fix up an old one, the ...

If you couple floor trusses with factory-built walls, you can minimize construction time and get your house under roof faster. The precision of these factory-built components is remarkable.

Miami building supplier Manuel Menendez has yet to replace or fix many of the poor-quality roof trusses he allegedly sold for use in up to 3,000 Dade County homes built in the 1980s. And only days ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Some big changes are coming to the Dome at Syracuse University as the new roof begins to take shape. The first pieces of the “crown truss” were put in place Thursday.

A stack of roof trusses is backed into Noltex Truss, a Grandview-based construction truss manufacturer, in Grandview, TX photographed on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Dallas-based homebuilding materials ...

Municipal inspectors and structural engineers have confirmed that the building contained the same problematic wooden roof trusses that have led to other collapses, including those following heavy ...

Scottish councils are being told to be aware of "potential issues" with certain roof types after a school ceiling collapsed in Aberdeenshire. The dramatic partial collapse was discovered at Slains ...