Truss Tales

Stories and posts on the truss and components industry

Joe Kannapell

When the Small Builder Passed the Biggest

Joe Kannapell

The story of how Jim Price, selling homes one-at-a-time, passed William Levitt, who sold one thousand in two days, contains a lesson for today. Although Price is not a name known to many while Levitt’s will be forever associated with his Levittowns, both pioneered production lines that...

Joe Kannapell

A Welcome Diversion – The New American Home (TNAH) at IBS

Joe Kannapell

If you’re traveling to next week’s National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) International Builders Show (IBS) in Las Vegas, you can see what can be done with trusses at The New American Home (TNAH), a “cliff-dwelling” with a distant view of the Strip. See also what...

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