Joists and Joist Girders
Joists and joist girders are custom-made structural steel components used to support the floors and/or roof of a building. They’re a key element of any roofing and/or flooring system. The use of steel joists and girders provides significant savings in building costs. DValley designs, engineers, manufactures and installs a full range of standard open web steel joists and joist girders.
What are Open Web-Steel Joists?
Open web steel joists are an engineered construction component used to support loads over short and long spans. They’re a secondary horizontal support beam in any structure, providing direct support for the roof or floor deck and transferring the load imposed on the deck to the structural frame (beam and column). Open web-steel joists are light in weight and provide a high strength to weight ratio. They’re an economical system for supporting floors and roofs.
What are Joist Girders?
Joist girders are a primary framing component. They’re the main load-bearing beam in a structure, supporting all other beams and, in turn, supported by posts. These open web steel trusses are used as primary framing members and designed as simple spans supporting in-plane loads for a floor or roof system. They’re usually the largest, strongest support in a structure.
Joists and joist girders are key components of today’s roofing and flooring systems. DValley Joists and Decking provides a full range of custom-designed open web steel joists and joist girders. Our quality design, speedy manufacturing and efficient installation of joists and girders are perfect for commercial and industrial structures. We provide quality products, manufactured to our client’s requirements, in a timely manner, at a competitive price.