Product category:
Building Trade Associations and Institutes
News Release from: Trussed Rafter Association
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 March 2006
Trussed Rafter Association overview
The Trussed Rafter Association is the respected voice of the UK trussed rafter industry.
The Trussed Rafter Association is the respected voice of the UK trussed rafter industry TRA is committed to raising standards in the industry, with all Members having to meet TRA's mandatory requirements for third-party supervised Quality Assurance and Professional Indemnity insurance helping to ensure quality in the design and manufacture of trussed rafters
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 18 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Trussed rafters prove equal to golf club challenge
Member of Trussed Rafter Association has produced a large number of special prefabricated timber trusses to create roofscape for National Golf Club Hotel.
Flexibility and strength of trussed rafters
Harlow Timber Systems supplied more than 200 hybrid attic trusses and other specials to luxury housebuilder Chase Homes for the development.
The Association participates in regular manufacturing and timber industry forums, providing Members with current news on industry developments and key policies.
Regional group meetings across the country ensure the distribution of information direct to Members.
TRA forges links with the public and private sectors to promote the industry's interests and liaises with research and regulatory bodies on product specification, health and safety and environmental issues.
Further reading
Benefits of factory-fabricated trussed rafters
Member of the Trussed Rafter Association demonstrates the benefits of utilising factory-fabricated trussed rafters in non-domestic developments.
Trussed rafters answer regeneration challenges
Member of Trussed Rafter Association has supplied factory fabricated mono-pitch trusses for a council-led project that has brought an area of derelict industrial land back into use.
Trussed rafters employed to create care village
Member of the Trussed Rafter Association has been involved in supplying a diverse array of long span, attic and other trusses for a major project in the residential care sector
The TRA is also fully represented on all relevant UK and European Standards Committees as well as working closely with building authorities, thus ensuring complementary policies and guidelines are adopted within the industry.
TRA Objectives:.
* Encourage architects and specifiers to choose trussed rafters as the preferred building material.
* Influence building engineers to use trussed rafters extensively.
* Act as an authoritative source of reference on trussed rafters.
* Develop and implement common design standards ensuring safety is never compromised for commercial interests.
* Ensure relevant standards and codes reflect best practice.
* Develop the professional status of Members and their employees.
* Offer appropriate services to Members.
What Are Trussed Rafters?.
Trussed rafters are individually designed components, manufactured from kiln-dried, strength graded timber.
Members are joined with steel nailplate fasteners engineered to provide a structural frame to support the roof fabric, ceilings and/or floors together with other features, such as dormer windows and attic roofs.
Combined with other ancillary components, they are used to construct trussed rafter roofs on a wide range of building types.
Trussed rafters are commonplace in new domestic housing and are becoming increasingly common in commercial and industrial buildings, such as office developments, retail outlets and leisure centres.
In today's highly competitive market, trussed rafters stand alone as a sophisticated and highly engineered timber product, with complex design and superior fabrication underpinned by high production standards.
Compared with other methods of roof construction, trussed rafters represent the most cost effective and flexible design option available.
Benefits of Trussed Rafters:.
* A fully engineered solution for a wide range of roof structures.
* Greater energy efficiency of building materials using up to 40% less than traditional construction methods.
* Thermal efficiency and higher insulation values than some materials, eg.
aluminium, steel and concrete.
* Speed of construction allows just-intime delivery to site.
* Space saving, with no storage area required on site.
* Widespread usage of prefabricated components reducing labour costs.
* Timber's unique environmental edge as the only truly renewable building resource available today.
* Low technology manufacturing process with reduced levels of emissions and pollution.
* Minimal environmental impact from installation.
* Ground Level Erection.
With site safety and speed of erection in mind some TRA Member companies have, in conjunction with developers, pioneered ground level erection techniques for complete roofs.
An inexpensive jig on the ground ensures the complete roof carcase is assembled accurately and then lifted by crane into position.
• Trussed Rafter Association: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Buildingtalk email newsletter
• Buildingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
