truss
Example Sentences
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In addition to the giant tsunami wall, the facility is now equipped with new backup power systems, reinforced walls, pipes and trusses to boost resilience in an earthquake.
Instead of overwriting the building’s industrial character, he retained exposed trusses, concrete floors and vast, column-free volumes, ideal for contemporary art.
From Los Angeles Times
It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.
Repairs to 40,000 square feet of the roof and the replacement of metal roof trusses are under way, Fisher said.
I saw that the house had great bones, beams and trusses, but it was just in disrepair.
From Los Angeles Times
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