Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Q: I have a house built in the late 1970s that has large beams exposed beyond the roof line. After more than 30 years of neglect and exposure there is a good deal of dry rot in them. I think I should ...

A beam is a structural element that provides support for floors and ceilings. Their main purpose is to transfer loads horizontally along their lengths to supports where the loads are usually resolved ...

HANNA TWP. — Ginger Wollenweber has a sign in her yard that reads "Life is simply better in the country." Wollenweber, who lives in the 14000 block of South 575 West in rural LaPorte County, had been ...

A ground beam is a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls at ground level. Its purpose is to link the piles together and provide a platform for further superstructure construction. A beam is a ...