At 30 feet tall and 225 feet long — about as long as a Boeing 747 — the truss had to be assembled piece by piece on site and required extensive coordination with the design and construction teams.

The workers pushed, pulled, wrangled and secured in place 10,000 tons of steel to erect the arena's framework. The single largest part of the arena's frame was a truss weighing 250,000 pounds.

A 27-year-old construction worker dies after being struck by steel trusses in Michigan. MIOSHA reveals details on the tragic high school gym project incident.

A construction worker died earlier this week after being hit by a steel truss while working on a high school gymnasium, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) announced.

Crafted from galvanized Z200 coated steel truss members, they offer a robust and maintenance -free framework that is both impervious to termite damage and is importantly non-combustible.

Thus, looking at the span of each truss can give you a rough estimate of the materials cost for an individual roof truss. Note: Gabled or end trusses can increase the costs shown below by about 25%.

The American Institute of Steel Construction is offering a tour of Seattle Public Utilities' new North Transfer Station at 3 p.m. Sept. 22.

The final piece of the Carrier Dome's crown truss roof is carefully put into place on Monday. A look at the final piece of steel bring inserted into the crown truss portion of the Carrier Dome roof.

47,000 cubic yards of concrete 22 weeks of steel construction 1,230 semitruck loads of steel 500,000 construction hours (for entire project) 2.8 million square feet (across several buildings) ...