Lessons Learned
From Truss Failure Letters To the Editor:
I have been a subscriber to New
England Builder since its inception,
and the publication has been more
than helpful and informative over the
years. In fact, it is through your
publication that I learned of
Raymond DiPasquale and sought his
investigative services when the case
study that he describes in your April
issue first occurred. It was painful to
relive the happening, but the
subsequent anguish that leaves me
tottering on the verge of bankruptcy
now has little to do with the actual
collapse of the trusses on that small
municipal building in rural New
England. I was the general contractor.
The really catastrophic domino
effect has come about from