The truss shown above is DETERMINATE. Member loads depend on only equilibrium relations. Material properties, cross-sectional areas and member lengths do not factor in on the member loads. It is easy ...

A prevalence of what Paul Fast, principal at Vancouver-based hcma architecture + design, calls “largely dark and cold steel-joint truss structures designed ... employs an innovative hybrid ...

For a carbon-neutral dining hall at Swarthmore College, Mid-Atlantic Timberframes arrived at a 48-feet-span glulam truss to support ... on 16-foot centers. The roof’s sweeping curvature is ...

F.O.G. Architecture skimmed the building to expose its skeleton, featuring triangle-shaped timber roof trusses and a series of wooden columns. The resultant column field became the visual centre ...