Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...

In Episode 11 of the Building My Dream Workshop series, I tour a truss manufacturing plant to see how roof trusses are built, ...

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 ...

Most new home construction now utilizes pre-engineered and built roof trusses, as opposed to traditional rafter framing to form the roof structure of the house. This type of framing construction is ...

MILWAUKEE -- The first roof truss of the new Bucks arena was raised into position on Tuesday morning, May 2nd at the Milwaukee Tool Construction Site. The job ...

ALOHA -- An estimated $300,000 to $400,000 worth of structural repairs is underway at after school officials learned that 119 wooden structures supporting the roof were damaged or broken. The school's ...

The Texas Rangers say construction at their new home, Globe Life Field, is 68% complete with the installation of the first retractable roof truss. The final section of the first truss was installed ...

The lead architects of the rebuilding of the Notre Dame cathedral have headed to D.C. to deliver a presentation on the project — the architects’ first lecture in the U.S. A group of Catholic ...

The final truss along the roof of the Las Vegas stadium has been placed. General contractors Mortenson Construction, Minneapolis, and McCarthy Building Cos., Henderson, wedged in the final truss ...

In a crucial step forward for the building of Milwaukee’s new downtown arena, the first roof truss of the new Bucks arena were raised into position at the Milwaukee Tool Construction Site on Tuesday ...