Gym Roof Truss

Build a fink truss to bolster a floor roof or deck.

Gym roof truss. Truss capacity is listed by pounds per square foot based on the following load rating criteria. Top chord live load snow and other temporary loads top chord dead load roofing materials weight of the truss itself other permanent items attached to the roof bottom chord live load storage and bottom chord dead load insulation ceiling. Custom trusses up to 100 span. Add to list click to add item 24 spreadweb residential roof truss 5 12 pitch 87 to your list.

These trusses the meet building code criteria as specified by structural building components of america sbca and the truss plate institute tpi. Shop roof trusses spacer floor truss. The building sits on a spread foundation system. Up to 40 open framing for plumbing.

Base level and set the top level to be bottom of truss along the exterior wall at the intersections of the grids span truss we will add next. Click to add item 24 spreadweb residential roof truss 5 12 pitch 87 to the compare list. These two chords meet at the truss s apex. Olumns and long span roof trusses to the gym.

The project consisted of a new gym new classrooms and new administrative offices. Trusses at 2 ft o c. They are designed at a 4 12 pitch to be spaced 2 foot on center. Fink trusses were originally invented for the purpose of beefing up bridges but many contractors now use them to increase the strength of interior structures.

Make room for the height of the long span truss. Spaced sheathing or 1x boards may be reduced slightly. Over 51 sizes styles in stock. Pre manufactured stock trusses are constructed with spruce pine fir spf or southern yellow pine syp lumber.

Trusses must be designed for any special loading such as concentrated loads from hanging partitions or air conditioning units and snow loads caused by driftingnearparapetorslide offfromhigherroofs. This project involves the design of a one story with wood studs shear walls and wood truss roof structure for an elementary school building. In a fink truss the internal joists are arranged in a w shape ensuring even weight distribution from one end to the other. The truss is analyzed for each possible location of the 640 plf load along the.

Since it has steep sides there is sufficient room for a living space below the roof or can be used as a storage space in the attic. It has two upper chords with one longer than the other. This translates into a uniform load of 640 plf across 2 5 ft of the span.