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Floor and Roof Truss Modeling & Design using MiTek STRUCTURE Software
Component Runner, LLC is your best outsourcing solution for Floor and Roof Truss design. This is our core competency. Our USA team has a combined experience level of over 325 years and each of our PM's has a minimum of 10 years of experience in floor and roof truss design and design management, in fact, our PM's have an average experience of 23 years! We can help you with your overflow work, whether it's for estimating purposes or complete modeling and design for production.
At Component Runner, LLC we work exclusively for MiTek Component Manufacturer customers using MiTek software
At Component Runner, LLC we will create an exact replica of your MiTek software and data environment on our secure server so jobs returned to you are guaranteed to be designed using the exact version of MiTek software you currently use in-house along with your materials and defaults. Our initial interview process will result in a custom preferences form that will be used to ensure we design trusses using your styles and preferences for framing hip ends, valley sets, unique webbing requirements for manufacturing purposes, proper splicing logic, correct truss labeling, etc. Each company has unique requirements and our entire team is focused on meeting those needs on a daily basis.
Please contact us for more information.
Custom Residential
Our experienced USA-based Project Managers are experts in all levels of building complexity. They are veterans in the SBC design arena and fully aware that to be an effective/efficient component designer one needs to be meticulous and process-oriented in order to produce consistent and accurate results. When it comes to one-off custom residential work, plans typically lack detail in the design of the floor or roof systems, and having the ability to work with plans that lack detail is commonplace for us. Our Project Managers routinely call our customers' clients on their behalf to sort out dimensional discrepancies, discuss truss design issues, and offer solutions for complex framing conditions, etc. This keeps the job moving forward with minimal involvement from your end; which is good when you're already at design capacity and don't have a minute to spare to track down questions on jobs assigned to us.
Contact us if you are interested in learning more about how Component Runner, LLC can help you with your custom residential floor and roof truss projects.
Tract Housing
Housing Tracts typically have multiple plans, elevations, and options. These jobs can choke a design department's ability to keep up with the daily demands of production. Tract Housing jobs tend to be front-end loaded from a design perspective and can take an experienced design technician out of pocket for weeks and sometimes months at a time. These jobs are extremely critical that they're done quickly, but accurately and efficiently designed for the plant; all at the same time. At Component Runner, LLC our team of experienced Project Managers are no strangers to this type of work, We've done literally hundreds of projects that we call "Product Mastering" which requires a consistent and efficient approach so when these jobs are being put into production they're geometrically accurate, properly engineered and optimized for production utilizing MiTek's built-in Production Control List (PCL) function, making it easy to use our work for months and years to come.
Contact us today if you're interested in learning how Component Runner can be your value-added resource for processing floor and roof truss designs for Tract Housing.
Light Commercial
Light commercial jobs require a professional working demeanor and a designer who understands the importance of working with the trades to ensure that the floor and roof truss systems work well from many different vantage points. Our Project Managers have extensive experience working with Architects, Structural Engineers, and Framing Contractors to ensure that the system design not only meets the needs of the structure from a geometric and engineering perspective but also from an HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical perspective. A truss job with webs that interfere with the HVAC trade, or floor truss layouts that do not consider plumbing drops result in field repairs that create unsatisfied customers. At Component Runner, LLC we understand that your reputation in the marketplace depends on smooth-running jobs with minimal trade-related issues. Our company has worked with MiTek STRUCTURE from the first release and is well versed in the Real-3D export capabilities within the software, creating files that are AutoDesk Navisworks compatible so they can be easily merged with other trades CAD work, creating a complete building model that shows all "clashes" with the trades. This exciting visual tool is relatively new to MiTek and certainly will be the standard method to communicate floor and roof truss systems to the trades moving ahead. At Component Runner, LLC, we are doing this today and we can help you get there, making you a stronger candidate for the growing number of general contractors who are employing these tools in their operations and requiring their sub-contractors to comply.
Contact us today to learn how Component Runner, LLC can help you with your light commercial floor and roof truss design jobs.
Multi-Family
Multi-family jobs are unique in nature. Most apartment complexes and hotels are made up of structurally independent units connected to form buildings. The key to efficient multi-family component design is to design the individual units properly from the start and using the multi-family tool available within the MiTek STRUCTURE software, the units are essentially "copied and pasted" to create buildings. Once the unit layout is complete, the common areas, hallways, stairs, and elevators are finished and the level is completed. This saves a tremendous amount of time as compared to drawing each level from scratch. A successful multi-family design model using this feature results in a dynamic link between the master units and each occurrence of those units in the building. This means if a unit changes for whatever reason, the designer simply modifies the "Master Unit Plan" and the entire model is "updated" to reflect the change. This allows a large multi-family project to be created relatively quickly and modified very easily if needed. At Component Runner, LLC about 25% of the jobs we do are multi-family projects and we are ready and able to help you with these projects.
Contact us today to learn how Component Runner, LLC can help you with your Multi-Family floor and roof truss design jobs.
Q/C Review Service
Component Runner USA based Project Managers have the experience to help you with your internal review process. We can help you create a Quality Control process that will help eliminate design errors.
We fully utilize the tools within the MiTek software suite to help us quickly check the model for geometric accuracy as well as the details surrounding the floor structure, walls framing details and roof truss systems.
You do the work, we'll check it for you.
Contact us today to learn how Component Runner, LLC can help you with your in-house Quality Control needs.
Wall Framing and Wall Panel Detailing
Component Runner, LLC is an Authorized Licensee of MiTek® STRUCTURE. We use MiTek STRUCTURE exclusively for providing structural modeling, editing, and estimating services to Component Manufacturers who are customers of MiTek. MiTek Structure is a trademark of MiTek Inc. Component Runner, LLC is not otherwise legally affiliated with MiTek Inc.
Wall Panel Manufacturing or Wall Framing in the Field, we're available to help you today.
For the MiTek Wall Panel Manufacturer
We can help you with all facets of wall panel detailing. We will work with your design manager to ensure we're using the same version of MITek STRUCTURE software that you currently use in-house. We will work with your team to develop a "Preferences Chart" that will incorporate your standard methodology for manufacturing panels, This preferences chart will be our benchmark moving forward so we understand your; layout preferences, junction types, blocking requirements, very top plate requirements, panel breaking requirements, stacking requirements and any other details that are important to your plant. We will also capture your MiTek database so the files we return to you are fully compatible with your inventory and preferences. Our team of highly experienced USA wall panel Project Managers will be available to you as needed to help with your overflow wall panel detailing needs. Finally, a solid option for outsourcing wall panel design!
Contact us if you are interested in learning more about how Component Runner, LLC can help you today!
For the Lumber Supplier
With the construction industry on the upswing, there's a growing shortage of experienced framers who are skilled in laying out walls. This creates a problem for framing contractors who are in need of these skills causing costly delays at the job site. At Component Runner, LLC we've received many phone calls from Lumber Suppliers who are interested in adding value to their lumber packages by offering detailed construction drawings for their framing contractor customers, but they don't have the staff to handle it. We can help. Our highly experienced wall panel designers will develop detailed wall framing output for you to provide your customers. We will frame the building and develop framer-friendly shop drawings to make it significantly easier for them to frame walls on-site. Our standard output package includes; Easy-to-read and understand wall layouts, wall framing elevation reports for standard, raked, and balloon framed walls, bottom plate cutting reports, material lists, cutting lists, and more.
Contact us today if you're interested in learning how Component Runner can be your value-added resource for increasing lumber sales.
Quick Quote Estimating
It has been said that estimating is more art than science but in today's market in order to be competitive you must be accurate and that requires modeling and designing the panels or trusses for quote purposes. This makes sense for smaller jobs but the large commercial jobs require a different approach which requires some design and a lot of guesstimating.
At Component Runner we have developed a Quick Quote process which combines modeling and design with accurate area zones and Excel to create a fast and accurate estimate.
Component Runner Services
The below list represents the bulk of what we do. We're experts and specialists in all MiTek software and our deep understanding of it makes us very easy to work with. We create a customer environment for each of our customers allowing us to run the exact MiTek software versions you run in your office for both engineering and layout programs, eliminating incorrect materials and design defaults. We meticulously capture your MiTek data so we can mimic your office in terms of master defaults, material inventory and any combination of options specified in the MiTek database.
You will be assigned a Project Manager who knows your business! We have assembled a team of SBC Design professionals with double digit years of design and management experience. These experts will always be there to ensure that what you get back from us is what you need, not what we think you need, requiring the least amount of re-work needed at your end to fit your requirements. Once we are done with the learning process we will be a great resource for you when you are overloaded and need help now!
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Component Runner, LLC is not owned or operated by MiTek. Component Runner, LLC is an authorized Service provider of MiTek and is fully licensed by MiTek for the use of the MiTek software for the benefit of MiTek customers. |
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People - The most important part 2) Our PM's are provide daily review of our design team progress plus Q/C checking |
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Building Information Modeling using MiTek SAPPHIRE Structure and MiTek eFrame software. |
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Structural Framing, Wood Truss and EWP Design Services |
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Professional Engineering Services |
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Material Estimating Services using Planswift and MiTek SAPPHIREStructure software |
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