Roof Trusses

How Blast Testing Advances Cold-Formed Steel Design: New ASCE Research Released

How Blast Testing Advances Cold-Formed Steel Design: New ASCE Research Released

A new ASCE technical paper presents the measured responses of components of an instrumented, full-scale, cold-formed steel (CFS) framed building subjected to open-arena blast testing. The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Journal of Structural Engineering has published a new technical paper,...

Conversion to Steel: ADTEK Wins SFIA Award for Wagner College Locker Rooms

Conversion to Steel: ADTEK Wins SFIA Award for Wagner College Locker Rooms

ADTEK Engineers earned the 2024 SFIA Award for Wagner College’s new locker rooms, a conversion from wood to steel framing, showcasing the strength, efficiency and light weight nature of cold-formed steel (CFS). Featured image: The locker rooms at Wagner...

Steel Framed Home Built in 3 Days Serves as Prototype for Humanitarian Relief in Armenia

Steel Framed Home Built in 3 Days Serves as Prototype for Humanitarian Relief in Armenia

LA firm Form Found Design delivers hope to Armenian families by using cold-formed steel (CFS) framing and FRAMECAD design and construction technology to build a durable custom home prototype in just 3 days. Photo Credits: Form Found Design Los Angeles-based...

CFS Trusses by MiTek® Steel Framing Accelerate Construction Schedules

CFS Trusses by MiTek® Steel Framing Accelerate Construction Schedules

SFIA member MiTek® Steel Framing recently completed two multi-million dollar projects in Arizona and Alabama, installing cold-formed steel (CFS) roof trusses in record time, while obtaining a perfect safety record. Photo of Great Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale, courtesy of...

Prefabricated Steel Panels Boost Quality and Construction Speed for Church and Retirement Community Projects

Prefabricated Steel Panels Boost Quality and Construction Speed for Church and Retirement Community Projects

Two projects, a Latter-day Saints church in Australia and a retirement community in Canada, show how prefabricated cold-formed steel (CFS) wall and roof truss systems help ensure straight and accurate construction and improved construction schedules versus wood framing and...