Steel Roof Girders

The use of a system of steel joists and steel deck is a solution of choice resulting in significant savings.

Steel roof girders.

Our certified welders can build heavy duty trusses and girders per your specifications including welding grinding and finishing. 20 inch to 120 inch depths. Joists are custom made structural steel components used to support the floors or roof of a building. Pre welded clips on 2 centers for wood or steel secondary framing.

A sl series truss is a single slope truss that includes steel girders and steel columns with clear span widths from 10 through 80 with available eave heights of 8 through 20. A girt is a vertically aligned girder placed to resist sheer loads. Larger girders 1 m 3 feet deep or more are made as plate girders welded or bolted together from separate pieces of steel plate. Open web steel joists are an engineered truss like construction component used to support loads over short and long spans alike.

Depths range from 4 feet to 14 feet 8 inches. Steel trusses and girders since 1972 superior structural corporation has been a family owned manufacturer of steel metal fabrications for both ornamental and structural applications. The economy of the gerber system is obtained from simple repetitive framing in stabilized relatively uniformly loaded structures. The warren type girder replaces the solid web with an open latticework truss between the flanges.

Options to set the roof girders on wood post or concrete wall also available. Typically used in non residential construction steel joists and joist girders provide an economical system for supporting floors and roofs. K lh and dlh series steel joists joist girders and lh and dlh series joists available as single or double pitched single piece steel joists can be produced up to 90 feet long joist girders. Steel joists joist girders.

Introduction the structural steel roof framing described in this publication and commonly called the cantilever girder or gerber system has been used successfully for many years throughout north america. Joists and joist girders canam buildings specializes in the manufacture of steel joists in a variety of shapes sizes and geometries. Their lengths range from 60 to 120 feet in the cold mill to 126 feet in the hot mill and 128 feet in the melt shop. The joists and roof deck are relatively standard says new millennium engineering manager brady broom but the girders are a different story.