Tapered Open-Web Trusses Provide a Roof with Style
RedBuilt™, a leader in the design, manufacture and support of patented engineered structural wood products for commercial and industrial applications, recently featured a Hardin Design Build project – Specialty’s Cafe & Bakery.
Specialty’s Café serves made-from-scratch breakfasts, lunches and baked goods. Yet this 7,000 square foot dine-in or take-out café provides guests with more than just good food.
“The building is unique from a design standpoint for its use of exposed wood trusses, glass, and steel,” says General Contractor Neil Hardin. “It offers a West-coast type of design creating a unique Midwest look.”
To achieve the sloped roofline, RedBuilt’s tapered Red-H™ open-web trusses with RedLam™ LVL chords were specified. The 13 trusses are 72” deep at one end and 24” at the other. While at the manufacturing plant, additional effort was made to ensure no finger joints were revealed within the chords as the trusses are in an exposed application.
“As a design-build project, you need efficiency,” explains Hardin. “RedBuilt was efficient, accommodating and delivered the product per expectations. The trusses were ready for installation without any customizing. This doesn’t happen often, usually there is something I have to adjust.”
“I’ve gotten other jobs based on this one,” says Hardin. “Other opportunities presented themselves because of our timely construction on this project. Keeping to strict schedules goes a long way in developing credibility and RedBuilt was a key partner in our success.”
– See more at: http://www.redbuilt.com/projects/details/specialtys-cafe#sthash.5wMZebbB.dpuf
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