Did you know the same technology used in large steel truss bridges can be used in your home, room addition, light-commercial building and so forth? You can have these same trusses built using wood.

I had my first experience with open web floor trusses made from standard 2x4s about 40 years ago. Ever since that day, when we installed these in a room addition, I was sold on the many benefits.

I had my first experience with open web floor trusses made from standard 2-by-4s about 40 years ago. Ever since that day, when we installed these in a room addition, I was sold on the many benefits.

A lightweight steel open-web bar-truss joist, similar to the floors of the World Trade Center and the roof of the Charleston, SC, sofa store, is a long steel bar (web) bent at 90-degree angles and ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Two construction workers are in the hospital—one in critical condition—after being hit by multiple falling trusses while working at Potterville High School, fire ...

The open-web steel trusses, in addition to serving an aesthetic purpose, were actually an economical alternative to more costly steel tube trusses. They also helped contribute to the owner’s request ...

Pittsburgh’s top engineer said concerns about steel trusses spurred the closure this weekend of the Panther Hollow Bridge in Schenley Park. Eric Setzler, the city’s chief engineer, could not ...

An online ad for the bridge reads: “For sale – one 90 yr old steel truss bridge. ... Bids are due Sept. 12 and an open house for prospective bidders will be held on Aug. 26.

When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that ...

A 700-foot blue steel truss is floating upstream to be attached to the new U.S. 60 Cumberland River ... The new bridge is expected to take 6 to 8 months and open to traffic in late spring of 2023.