Why Another Truss Section?

Over the past 20 years commercial construction has shifted to more and more to Cold Formed Steel in load bearing applications due to its light weight and high strength but yet bar joist/structural steel has continued to be the standard in floors. This is entirely due to CFS Trusses not offering the value they should. AdvanT is designed specifically to fill the need for a lightweight, strong and economical Cold Formed Steel Truss Option in Floors and Flat Roof applications.

How is AdvanT Different?

The AdvanT Truss section has many advantages over existing proprietary Cold Formed Steel Truss Shapes. Just a few include:

• Ability to double webs at chord connection reducing bracing and increasing screw capacity
• Single point connection of intermediate webs reducing shear in chords and reducing weight and cost
• Higher center of gravity in chord design increases truss efficiency and lowers cost

How Does AdvanT Compare for Cost?

AdvanT Steel LLC believes that we offer not only the best value/price for Cold Formed Steel Trusses versus C-stud and other Proprietary Shapes but the best value/price for any Non-Combustible Floor or Flat Roof System versus any other product, whether it be structural steel bar joist, concrete, another CFS Truss or even CFS Joists.

We are so confident in this that we offer an online pricing tool to provide Design Guidance relative the span/depth/load of a project and an estimate of what one of our fabricators will charge for the finished AdvanT trusses!

How Do I Specify it For My Project?

It is our goal to make using Cold Formed Trusses, specifically AdvanT Steel Cold Formed Trusses as easy as possible! Please see the Specification Section 054400 available for download on this website AND be sure to utilize the sizing tool available as well. It is a effective way to determine if Advant makes sense for your project and we are so confident in our system it will even provide a preliminary cost for comparison to other options!