0 a long, thick piece of wood, metal, or concrete, used in buildings to support a floor or ceiling --
It is a company which produces, and has produced, a fine type of steel of a particular product, rounds, joists, rails and what have you.
Distribution of imported steel joists can be restricted unless it is given as a common service to the steel industry?
These go across and then under the joists are put those steel props, which are adjustable and removable.
The structural defects consist of roof and wall movement and corrosion of steel joists in the buildings opened in 1908.
First, the sizes of joists and roof spans are cut down.
The only difference to the building—the room or whatever it may be—is that there is above a steel ceiling with these steel joists.
For example, surely heavy bulk liquids, heavy steel joists and heavy minerals should go by rail.
Nor can you design that pillar without knowing the weight of the rafters, the joists, and the roof that it will have to bear.
