SFA & CFSC Team Up to Offer Industry Best Practices for Cold-Formed Steel Components

The Cold-Formed Steel Building Component Safety Information booklet, CFSBCSI, is now available and includes the most current information regarding the handling, installation, restraint and bracing of cold-formed steel trusses. Modeled after BCSI for metal plate connected wood trusses, CFSBCSI includes information on:NEW! – Modifications to Chapters CFSB1, B2 & B3 addressing trusses spaced at 4'-0" on-center and up to 80'-0" in length insert accompanies booklet)

• Important safety items to be considered when handling and installing trusses
• Required information to be included by the building designer in the construction documents for projects involving trusses
• Unloading and lifting individual and bundles of trusses
• Crane use and proper truss handling
• Setting trusses and installation restraint and bracing for trusses spaced up to 2 ft on-center
• Hip set assembly installation recommendations
• Long span truss installation
• Field assembly and other special conditions
• Permanent restraint and bracing concepts and guidelines for trusses spaced up to 2 ft on-center
• Construction loads
• Truss damage, jobsite modifications and installation errors
• Fall protection general guidelines

CFSBCSI is available in an easy to read 8-1/2” x 11”, spiral bound booklet and includes many photographs and graphics that help clarify and support the concepts discussed in the text.