“It is finally advancing and changing for the better. Without software it would have been nearly impossible to create the drawings necessary to manufacture the trusses.Īfter the tour, McHugh, who is also the Vice President of the Ontario Structural Wood Association (OSWA), offered his thoughts on the structural wood industry in Canada. It is a simple commercial building that has a very complicated roof. He showed me a gas station he had recently built. Like most Ontario-based truss plants, he has a long order book. Out back in the plant, his equipment is going full tilt to keep up with demand. In the front, his computerized design office continues to grow so much so that the boardroom is now full of designers. When we visited Bruce McHugh, GM and Vice President of Operations with Peterborough Truss & Floor, in his Peterborough, Ontario, manufacturing facility, he was happy to show us around. What about a round commercial building that requires a perfectly circular roof? Of course! That can be done, too. Does your client’s man cave – disguised as a garage – need more storage space, perhaps an attic truss? Easily done.
You want a grand entrance with a cathedral ceiling? No problem. With computer-aided design, the options are almost limitless. Today, however, a good designer only needs one of the many excellent computer programs available to design the roof structure of any building. We won’t even discuss the slide rule, used before calculators were common. A few decades ago, you needed a drafting table, calculator and lots of time to design anything beyond a very standard roof.
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