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A commercial building under construction I saw the other day. It caught my eye because of the shoring still being up

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. Are the trusses top chord bearing on the steel girders? Hard to tell from the pic

[–] saccharomyces 1 points 1 year ago

Sure are. I’m amazed how weird the picture ended up looking at that point, but I took another gander since I ended up there on my lunch break again. There are a couple of pieces of lumber run horizontally on the steel beam’s flange and the top chord of the truss is on top of those boards. I think it looks so funky because there are short pieces between each chord right at the very end