It's easy. A truss designer uses software that creates two giant girder trusses that allow for a full-sized staircase up into the new attic space.

Irka Dyczok looked at the six massive building trusses lying in a field and saw her future home. “We just fell in love with them,” she recalled of the beams from an early-1900s foundry that ...

Q: Tim, I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible ...

ASK THE BUILDER | Advanced computer technology designs the exact size and shape of the truss to meet whatever specifications you require.

Most new home construction now utilizes pre-engineered and built roof trusses, as opposed to traditional rafter framing to form the roof structure of the house. This type of framing construction ...