The registration of the professional designation officially took place late last year, when the SAQA board registered 'certified timber roof truss designer' as an additional professional designation ...

Rapid-response roof truss package gets historic pub operational within weeks.

WHILE there are a few misconceptions around timbers fire performance, structural timber for roofing is both commonplace and performs well under fire conditions. As with every aspect of building, ...

A-Truss provides high quality timber, timber grading and trussed rafter design and engineering. It has also brought new technology into play, and utilises the latest computer-aided design software to ...

Architectural trends, increasing emphasis on energy efficiency and the continual development of new building materials all result in residential roof structures becoming increasingly complex. In a bid ...

These simple but elegant gambrel roof structures have been popular on hay barns for many years. There's no reason, though, why the classic gambrel cannot be used on other kinds of structures (such as ...

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 ...