"Whenever you can use truss roofs, panelized walls, larger prefab components and just tilt it up to put the house together, the better off you are," he said.

The terms closed truss and open truss are used in two ways to describe characteristics of truss roofs.

New York architect, Henry C. Dudley (1813-1894) designed the truss roof in 1871 and the chancel and transept in 1885.

It is the only synagogue in the Catskills with an exposed truss roof.

Its nave roof is thatch on the original scissor truss roof.

These pavilions were often simple wooden buildings with truss roofs, modestly sized dance floors, and small stages.

The nave has a scissor truss roof, and the chancel a collar rafter roof.

Like truss roofs.

The church, with its aisleless nave topped by a truss roof, is adorned with decorative elements of the Lombard type.

The Hackensack Ford dealership fire on July 1, 1988, resulted in the deaths of five firefighters after a bowstring truss roof collapsed.