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 ...

The truss shown above is DETERMINATE. Member loads depend on only equilibrium relations. Material properties, cross-sectional areas and member lengths do not factor in on the member loads. It is easy ...

Roof trusses and floor trusses are support structures that consist of one or more triangular units that are made with straight, slender members and connected at the ends as joints. Roof trusses are ...

The aptly named SaunaPlunge Container is built from a standard 20-ft (6-m)-long shipping container and consists of separate sauna and plunge pool sections. Focusing on the former first, it ...

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group ...

Valley Truss is one of the Island's four manufacturers of engineered floor and roof trusses for use in construction projects. "Any time you take a major player out of the process, it certainly ...

Footage showed Liz Truss walking off a stage after a giant picture of a lettuce appeared behind her. A banner, which also featured the words "I crashed the economy", was slowly unfurled as the ...

A "blue plaque" commemorating the lettuce that famously outlasted Liz Truss' premiership has been unveiled above the shop where it was bought. The lettuce, purchased by a Daily Star journalist ...

In the autumn of 2022, Liz Truss bet her premiership on a so-called mini-budget that ripped up decades of economic orthodoxy. It did not pay off. I spoke to those involved about the thinking ...

At 06:48 BST on Friday 5 July, former Prime Minister Liz Truss lost her South West Norfolk seat by just 630 votes, overturning her majority of more than 26,000. She had arrived at the count just ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. In a packed event on the sidelines of the Tory conference, Ms Truss admitted that winning the general election would have been “a tall order”.