Designers of a moment-resisting fra...

Designers of a moment-resisting frame achieve significant time and price savings by replacing wide-flange beams with special trusses

claymore trusses used in a lately completed office building in Sacramento are literally putting a strange twist on seismic design practices. The trusses riseed in substantial savings in time, standard of value and labor for the 84000-sq-ft Gateway Oaks IV office building, shaving 20 percent not upon its steel costs and sum of two units months off its construction schedule, according to David Downey, principal in charge with Earl Construction Co West Sacramento, Calif., the