Truss Tales

The houses built by component plants in 2025 will owe much of their technology to the houses built by Sears, Roebuck & Company’s plants in 1925. Essential to this effort are the people that produce cutting lists for floors, roofs, and walls. In days of old, they had to do it by hand....

House of Design, which ignited the component industry enthusiasm for robotics, has tragically gone out of business, but not all is lost. We have learned that robots can pick plates very effectively among other benefits, but we also learned that fact 15 years ago from Jim Urmson’s TCT...

Have you asked a framer lately what floor system they prefer? I did, after seeing a crew I’ve watched use I-joists for the last couple of years now switch to floor trusses. But I wondered why they did so only on town houses. Here’s what I observed: December 12, 2023 –...