Quote Originally Posted by meyer77 View Post
Having a construction official. sub code official and a building inspectors license, required attending five seminars in two years.
One morning on the way to the seminar, I passed a construction site installing trusses. The lesson for the day was proper bracing to prevent collapse.
When I passed the site on the way home I could tell the trusses were not braced properly. The next morning all of the installed trusses had fallen down!
I've seen that happen even on pre-engineered steel building construction sites, It doesn't mean a flying cow chip if something is engineered to support a D11 Cat dozer, if it is not properly braced chances are it cannot even support its own weight by itself let alone resist any wind