Trussed rafters: the off-site product delivering health and safety best practice

Widely used for a range of building types, trussed rafters are an economical, versatile and straightforward solution to providing a roof over a building.

Trussed rafters are individually designed prefabricated structural components made from strength-graded timber members of the same thickness, joined together with punched metal plate connectors....

Trussed Rafters have become part of the modern building vocabulary. Around 95% of all new house roofs are constructed using trussed rafters as are an increasing proportion of roofs for nondomestic premises such as offices, retail outlets, hospital extensions, leisure developments etc.

This product Data Sheet has been produced...

This information sheet is an extrapolation of the standard bracing requirements given in BS 5268-3 extended to cover 'Room in the Roof' trussed rafters. All the information given here should be read in conjunction with the requirements of that standard.

Contents:

• Why brace trussed rafter roofs?
• Bracing responsibility
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