Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

The roof of the Sofa Super Store’s main showroom, where six of the firefighters’ bodies were found, was supported by a steel truss. Before his death in 2006, building construction expert Frank ...

A local lawmaker wants owners of buildings with steel truss roofs to have warning signs, hoping these signs might help avert a firefighting disaster like the one June 18 at the Sofa Super Store. Fire ...

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The American Institute of Steel Construction is offering a tour of Seattle Public Utilities' new North Transfer Station at 3 p.m. Sept. 22. The site is at 1350 N ...

The new enclosure is flanked on two sides by the L-shaped walls of the house and on one side by an original freestanding brick wall. A new glass wall incorporates a pair of motorised glass entrance ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Jamie Williams has a special appreciation for the work being done on the Carrier Dome roof. A Syracuse resident, graduate and architect, Williams took notice on Monday that Syracuse ...

Laboratory testing found two of the Chinese steel samples were so poor they did not contain carbon – meaning they could not ...

The construction of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat domed Las Vegas stadium hit a snag last week, but officials say it’s nothing to be alarmed about. One of the massive steel canopy trusses was ...