The following videos provide some Basic insights on Engineered Floor I-Joists and Firefighter Safety. The first two video reports are a few years old, but provide some good visual and narrative ...

Municipal leaders and fire officials are calling for changes they say would better protect firefighters when houses built with engineered I-joists go up in flames. Engineered I-joists are used in the ...

I-joists are strong, lightweight, "I" shaped engineered wood structural members that meet demanding performance requirements. I-joists are comprised of top and bottom flanges that resist bending and ...

Multiple firefighter fatalities at large commercial fires attract the attention and scrutiny they warrant. However, the fire service must also recognize that most line-of-duty injuries and deaths ...

On the outskirts of Fallon, New Millennium's steel joist manufacturing plant operates as a testament to modern industrial engineering and commitment to worker safety. Inside this 160,000 square foot ...

Structural composite lumber, such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), laminated strand lumber (LSL), parallel strand lumber (PSL), oriented strand lumber (OSL) (in development) and steam-pressed scrim ...

Q: I have an older home with a crawlspace foundation. My problem is the floors sag in the living room to the point where it's hard to keep a lamp steady on the end tables. My other problem is there is ...

In this episode, we build the rest of our first floor by notching and installing 20 more floor joists into the girders. The middle 10 floor joists are installed similarly to the first 10 shown in ...

Q: I saw your column a while back about sagging floor-boards. Well, I have the opposite problem. A couple of spots underneath my living-room carpet feel like there is a “hump” there. When I pulled ...