Unlike conventional construction, lightweight wood truss construction does not obtain its strength from the size of the materials used but rather from compression and tension of the materials used in ...

New houses are being built with more lighter materials these days. However, some fear this is putting firefighters at risk. At issue are lightweight wooden trusses that support the roof. They're ...

In a 4-month period during 2007, 54 firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty. Eighteen of those firefighters were killed after becoming lost, caught or trapped in structures. Numbers like ...

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 ...