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White Paper: Strut Bracing

Next time you see bundles of what looks like truss webs delivered with your RedBuilt™ open-web trusses, make sure your contractor understands the purpose and installs them—strut bracing is there for their safety.

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In 1975, installation bracing, or “strut bracing,” was created to ensure safe installation of our open-web trusses over impressive spans. Fast forward 40 years, and we continue to offer impressively-long spans, and still supply strut bracing for installation safety.

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Learn more about what strut bracing is, any why RedBuilt provides it with every job, at no additional cost, in our most recent white paper: Strut Bracing by Ben Seely, P.E. and David Cortnik, EIT.

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