Turb-O-Truss™
product features:
Turb-O-Truss™ trusses are engineer designed
Turb-O-Truss™ trusses are assembled on the building
site
Turb-O-Truss™ trusses create jobs, jobs, jobs,
jobs…..
Low skills required for assembly
Labour intensive, in line with Governments plan to create jobs
No jigs required for assembly
No factory premises required for truss assembly
No Electricity required- Only Hand Tools
Limiting Span tables available for all commercially available roof loading
applications such as cement roof tiles, metal sheeting etcetera
Creates both income and self-esteem for previously disadvantaged people
Meets the requirements of the National Building Regulations.
All timber used to manufacture the Turb-O-Truss™
meets with the requirements of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
Computer Software to determine timber component lengths and apex heights
Animated, easy to understand assembly manual.
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Turb-O-Truss™ assembly requirements
are:
(A) Turb-O-Truss™curved webs and pre-cut top and
bottom chords,
(B) Turb-O-Connector metal connector plate
(C) Hand tools only, such as a claw hammer, saw, square,
measuring tape.(back)
Low Component Manufacturing Costs
The machinery required for manufacturing the Turb-O-Web™
curved webs at a central component manufacturing plant or at a saw mill
can be manufactured locally or imported such as the one manufactured in
Taiwan.
There is a local manufacturer in South Africa who can manufacture a
Turb-O-Web™ component cutting machine at a cost of less
than R 50 000.00. The machine can produce about 5000 webs per day, based
on a standard 8-hour shift. This could be equal to Turb-O-Web™
components for about 1250 roof trusses, or about 125 low cost
houses per day. .(back)
Stock Holding
The amount of stock of each length required is determined by the trusses
to be manufactured. Stocks are generally kept as on the right:
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How does the Turb-O-Truss™differ from prefabricated
roof trusses or conventional bolted trusses?
Whereas prefabricated timber roof trusses are manufactured in a factory
environment which requires computer software programmes, capital intensive
stationary manufacturing equipment such as electric saws, mechanical truss
assembly equipment as well as capital intensive articulated vehicles for
delivery to the building site of such trusses……and
Whereas conventional bolted timber roof trusses are traditionally
assembled on the building site, but do require electricity in order to
drill bolt holes, and the cost of such a truss is exorbitant as a result
of the large amount of timber required to make overlapping joints and
where often the timber sizes and truss configuration has to be “over
designed” in order to allow adequate bolting area in a particular
truss joint……..the
Turb-O-Truss™ system can be described
as a HYBRID of the two truss manufacturing methods described above in
that; on the one hand, the appearance of the Turb-O-Truss™
is similar to that of a factory made prefabricated timber roof truss as
its timber members are in the same plane and Turb-O-Truss™utilises
Turb-O-Connector metal connector plates on the joints.
Its similarity to bolted trusses is that the Turb-O-Truss™
is assembled on the building site and does not require a factory environment
with jigs or electricity for assembly, but with only a few hand tools
and low skills.(back)
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