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Lightweight trusses bear up better than conventional roofs

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SubjectRoofs; roofing
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Builders have long appreciated the advantages of truss roof construction, but found it too expensive to meet accepted standards. Now, scientific tests by the Division of Building Research find lightweight nailed W-trusses stronger than the strongest conventional roofs and make possible CMHC acceptance of much more economical types of trusses.
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  • National Builder 8, no. 11 (1 December 1959): 38–40, 51.
LanguageEnglish
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IdentifierDBR-RP-88
NRC numberNRCC 5481
NRC-IRC-3713
NPARC number20375567
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