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 ...

ALVARADO, Texas — United Southwest Components, a construction service specializing in the design and manufacturing of engineered open web wood trusses ... sold to Alliance Lumber in 2015 ...