Category Archives: Products

Featured Project: Las Vegas Cyclery – Getting the Look, Going Green

In 2008, bicycle enthusiast Jared Fisher dreamed of owning a bike shop that could power itself and generate almost no waste. At the end of 2012, his dream became a reality. Last December, Fisher opened Las Vegas Cyclery, a two-story, … Continue reading

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Check Out Our New Open-Web Truss Video

Check out this video to gain an in depth grasp of what an open web truss really is.  With one of RedBuilt’s™ main products, dive into the material composition and see how these materials fit and work together.  In less … Continue reading

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We’ve updated our Literature!

by Paul Drace, Director of Marketing at RedBuilt™ Go to http://www.redbuilt.com/resources/literature.aspx to find our most up-to-date literature in easy to access PDF format.  We strongly urge you to become dependent on the electronic versions of literature primarily because if you … Continue reading

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Deeper is Cheaper

The marketing group at RedBuilt™ has been doing some Blog soul searching because when we talk about our blogs, they always seem to have these words associated with them: “epically long” and “epically technical.” Although we do like the idea … Continue reading

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“Late Breaking News! RedBuilt EWP Channel Exclusive Story! A startup that’s 50 years old”

by Paul Drace, Director of Marketing at RedBuilt At RedBuilt™, we pride ourselves on being the industry leader not only in quality and breadth of product offering, but also in information. To expand and improve our methods of sharing information … Continue reading

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Why RedBuilt™?

By Tom Byron, Technical Sales Representative at RedBuilt™ Why use RedBuilt™ products and services? This question is asked everyday by a variety of design professionals, contractors, property owners, and building department officials. This two part series will help explain the benefits … Continue reading

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Let RedBuilt™ help you with that – A word of caution when modifying or fixing Open-Web trusses.

by Wilson Antoniuk, RedBuilt™ Technical Sales Representative for Southern Idaho Did you know that every RedBuilt™ Open-Web truss is custom designed and manufactured for its specific application and loading? Or that we maintain archives of our truss designs and as-built … Continue reading

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The Destruction: Engineer in Training Open Web Level Two Blog: Part IV

by Jason Fitch, Engineer in Training at RedBuilt™ To test the Open Web Truss, we set up load cells at the ends of the truss and applied load uniformly across it. As load was applied, we could see the truss … Continue reading

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Putting Together the Pieces: Engineer in Training Open Web Level Two Blog: Part II

by Jason Fitch, Engineer in Training at RedBuilt When I arrived at the Hillsboro Plant, I was introduced to Ed Medley, who would teach me and help me with the construction of my truss.  I don’t know if Ed had … Continue reading

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The Beginning – A “Good” Design: Engineer in Training Open Web Level Two Blog: Part I

by Jason Fitch, Engineer in Training at RedBuilt (Editor’s Note: There are three levels of open web certification.  Level I is the introductory understanding of how to use software, and read and understand the output.  Level II provides the understanding … Continue reading

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