Trada Roof Trusses
The most common pattern is the fink or w truss designed for symmetrical double pitch roofs although there are a variety of shapes suitable for most roof designs.
Trada roof trusses. For pitched roofs flat roofs and ceiling joists. The trusses supported purlins and binders which in turn supported rafters and ceiling joists. With roof trusses large spans and challenging roof contours are no barrier to creating innovative eye catching design solutions. 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.
They have been popular since the 1960s. The trada truss was relatively short lived most modern roofs are constructed from trussed rafters. The tda trusses were built on site using toothed plate connectors and were based on standard designs that were published by the timber development association tda the forerunner of the timber research and development association trada. Widely used for a range of building types trussed rafters are an economical versatile and straightforward solution to providing a roof to a building.