May 30, 2025 | Project Feature
Recognizing The Scale, Calling The Experts In early 2024, Diamond City Equestrian approached long-time partner Southridge Construction with an ambitious vision: to build one of the largest indoor riding arenas in Western Canada, now proudly named Gait N’ Rein....
May 14, 2025 | Building Tips
Fire & Moisture Protection Barriers Available from Structural Truss Fire and moisture damage are two unavoidable anomalies that may affect a building during or after the construction process. We feel it is necessary to provide options that minimize the effects...
May 6, 2025 | Project Feature
Prefabricated Wall Panels For More Efficient Construction Wall panels and other prefabricated building components are becoming increasingly popular in new construction, but what makes prefab components more efficient and why are builders and contractors switching?...
Feb 4, 2025 | Project Feature
According to a recent study by the Real Estate Institute of Canada, multifamily development has become a strategic and important shift in Western Canadian residential construction. With the recent rise in interest rates and construction costs, multifamily projects are...
Nov 6, 2024 | Building Tips
Why Are Trusses So Strong? Wood trusses are widely used in Canadian construction due to their strength, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. To the layman, the geometric shape may appear to be just for aesthetic reasons, but in fact, there is a fundamental design...
Aug 8, 2024 | Building Tips
Installing Roof Trusses - How Best to Avoid Damage and Undue Stress Hoisting roof trusses with a crane is extremely common on job sites. Recently, Structural Truss Systems designed and built Western Canada’s first 120 ft long truss, and hoisting something of...
Jun 10, 2024 | New Products
The Biggest Clear Span Roof Trusses Western Canada Has Ever Seen - Manufactured here in Fort Macleod, Alberta. The title of our blog, Build It Better, has never been more applicable than these past couple of weeks, when Structural Truss Systems became one of the first...
Apr 12, 2023 | Building Tips
The short answer is no, but here’s why. With the increased popularity of “green energy” and “net-zero” construction, the subject of solar energy has become a hot topic. It’s an industry assumption that solar panels only require the analysis of additional...
Feb 14, 2023 | Project Feature
ROOF TRUSSES FROM ALBERTA TO TEXAS We recently had the opportunity to supply five loads of roof & floor trusses to a large church project located 3,359 km (or 2,087 Miles) south of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, to El Campo, Texas, USA. Why would a project located...
