#TBT Walt Whitman Birthplace Interpretive Center

It's really hard to believe that nearly 20 years have passed since we completed glulam trusses for the Interpretive Center at Walt Whitman's birthplace in Huntington Station, NY. Liz, our sales associate, recently gave a presentation nearby and stopped in to see the building in person.

These are really interesting trusses; all of the tension members are steel rods (pictured more clearly below.) Because of the overall roof shape with the clerestory windows, you end up with an interesting truss geometry. Without that diagonal steel, the remaining truss members wouldn't all make triangles. As we've already mentioned in an earlier Wednesday's Word of the Week, trusses should be formed of a series of triangles.