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 ...

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 ...

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’m sure you’ve driven across or seen large steel truss bridges that are made by combining any number of huge steel beams into right triangles that interconnect. When viewed from the side they look ...

BŌK Modern’s inspiration for its new balcony design came from work done on this canopy on a San Francisco building. Instead ...

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 ...

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 ...