TRADA Publications
These are free pdf publications, but may require you to register with TRADA for free. Click here to do this.
- Durability by Design - The life of timber components can be extended considerably by attention to detail at the design stage. Achieving 'durability by design' requires a designer first to target and define performance and maintenance expectations and then to specify and detail appropriately. Download PDF. View HTML.
- Structural Timber Composites: A Design Guide - Timber itself is a valuable structural material. It can also be combined with other materials, such as adhesives, to form a variety of composite products. View HTML.
- Timber Frame Construction: Site Control Checklist - Timber Frame construction is a dry, lightweight method of building; easily and quickly constructed to a weatherproof stage using factory-made wall panels and trussed rafters, or roof cassettes. The intermediate floors and roof act as structural diaphrams which contributes to the overall stability of the building. View PDF.
Trussed Rafter Association (TRA) Publications
These are available to all, for free.
- Creating Roofscapes with Trussed Rafters - Trussed rafters have become part of the modern building vocabulary. Around 95% of all new house roofs are constructed using trussed rafters. View PDF.
- Room in the Roof & Attic Trusses - The 'Room-in-Roof' or attic trussed rafter is a simple means of providing a structural roof and floor in the same components. This offers considerable advantages over other methods of extending buildings. View PDF.
- Standard Bracing of Duopitched Trussed Rafter Roofs for Dwellings - Trussed rafters must be braced to create a rigid and stable roof structure. If the bracing is omitted, wrongly positioned or badly fixed it may result in distortion or failure of individual trusses; or in some instances the entire roof. View PDF.
- Storage and Erection of Trussed Rafters On Site: Guidelines - When a delivery of trussed rafters arrives on site, the contractor should be prepared and should have allocated sufficient and suitable resources for their storage and erection. View PDF.
