Experience proves profitable as designers create long-span trusses with an integrated catwalk and raised bottom chord.
“The project looked daunting at first,” says Dean Lessei, truss designer at Cascade. “So, I poured myself into the designs and pictured how it would come out.”
The project is a three-story, 67-unit assisted living center in Madison, Wis. It’s being built by PDC Midwest Inc., an award-winning, Hartland, Wis.-based design-build firm that specializes in senior living communities.