Posts and beams can be steel, wood or engineered lumber. When placing joists, studs, rafters or trusses, carpenters need to know how far apart to install them. The distance is indicated on ...

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 ...

A falling ceiling truss at a construction site created a domino affect, leading to a man being crushed under nearly two dozen trusses, according to investigators in Tennessee. The worker was ...