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RedSpec Next™
RedSpec™ is a free, user-friendly design program for creating floor and roof specifications using Red-I™ joists, RedBuilt™ open-web trusses, RedLam™ LVL, glulam beams, and dimensional lumber.
FloorChoice™
FloorChoice™ is RedBuilt's Floor Performance Rating System, scoring floor vibration and performance on a 0–10 scale during the design phase so the floor system matches what the space actually needs.
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RedBuilt Open-Web Truss Design Guide
RedBuilt Open Web Truss Guide for architects, engineers, and designers. Explore truss types and profiles for long span and commercial loaded applications. The guide includes allowable live loads and dead loads for commercial spans. Typical installation details for cantilevers, parapets, outriggers, sloped bearing, double trusses. Seismic, snow drifting, and wind uplift tables with allowable load capacities for wood and steel pin connected trusses. Find information on long span installation, hole sizes through the truss, bridging, and installation. Design dead loads for construction material.
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- Hybrid Mass Timber, Open-web trusses
RedBuilt Open-Web Truss Design Guide
RedBuilt Open Web Truss Guide for architects, engineers, and designers. Explore truss types and profiles for long span and commercial loaded applications. The guide includes allowable live loads and dead loads for commercial spans. Typical installation details for cantilevers, parapets, outriggers, sloped bearing, double trusses. Seismic, snow drifting, and wind uplift tables with allowable load capacities for wood and steel pin connected trusses. Find information on long span installation, hole sizes through the truss, bridging, and installation. Design dead loads for construction material.
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- Guides, Specifying Tools
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- Hybrid Mass Timber, Open-web trusses
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Updated Mar 2026
RED-S™, RED-M™ and RED-H™ Parallel Profile
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- Open-web trusses
RED-S™, RED-M™ and RED-H™ Parallel Profile
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- Open-web trusses
Red-S™ Heavy S-Clip Lateral Bearing Clip with Extended Base Plate (TB-105)
This technical bulletin provides bearing clip capacities and design information for the Red-S Heavy S-Clip Lateral Bearing Clip with extended base plate for use with Red-S Open-Web trusses.
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- Guides, Specifying Tools, Technical Bulletins
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- Open-web trusses
Red-S™ Heavy S-Clip Lateral Bearing Clip with Extended Base Plate (TB-105)
This technical bulletin provides bearing clip capacities and design information for the Red-S Heavy S-Clip Lateral Bearing Clip with extended base plate for use with Red-S Open-Web trusses.
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- Guides, Specifying Tools, Technical Bulletins
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- Open-web trusses