Our founder, Barclay Simpson, started our company with a simple belief — help customers solve problems. Barc did just that when he created our first joist hanger in 1956 for a customer who needed to make a roof connection. Today, we have many more solutions to meet customers’ construction needs with our full product offering structural connectors, fasteners, fastening systems, anchors, lateral systems, software, and concrete repair, protection and strengthening systems. Simpson Strong-Tie products can be found in commercial construction projects varying greatly in size and scale. We have solutions for soft-story retrofitting, steel construction, unreinforced masonry (URM) retrofits and more. Our goal is to create awareness, offer educational material and provide solutions for your construction needs.
For heavy-duty mechanical anchoring into concrete, CMU or masonry, builders generally choose between screw anchors or wedge anchors. Both can handle high loads, require predrilling, and are available in corrosion-resistant finishes for either interior or exterior use. However, there are some key differences to compare and consider.
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As a lead industry supporter and research partner of the National Science Foundation-funded NHERI TallWood test, Simpson Strong-Tie is proud to participate in this groundbreaking initiative to investigate the resilience of tall timber buildings in earthquake-prone regions.
Continue reading “Shaking Up Architecture: Putting Mass Timber Construction to the Seismic Test”
Like our customers, Simpson Strong-Tie is always looking for innovative ways to design and build safer, stronger structures. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Edge-Tie system for curtain-wall and cladding connections in structural steel construction.
If you’ve ever spent a few hours working on your hands and knees to drill holes and drive screws, you know how time consuming and tedious it can be. Now, imagine spending consecutive weeks, months or even years fastening wood planks to steel on a manufacturing production line. For technicians who operate hand tools several hours each day, labor-intensive work often can be strenuous, inefficient and subject to ongoing concerns about quality and safety.
We’re all ready for a smarter way to get the job done.
Continue reading “A Standing Innovation: Fastening Wood to Steel Just Got Easier”
Simpson Strong-Tie has been committed to helping people design and build safer, stronger structures for more than 65 years. Now we’re advancing our mission even further — to help build safer and stronger roads, highways, airport runways and other paved surfaces in North America and around the world.
Continue reading “A New Foundation for America’s Roads and Highways”
Can running takeoff software and generating materials lists for new construction projects be as fun as playing a video game? The inside sales team at Jackson Lumber & Millwork sure seems to think so. Founded in 1946, Jackson is a third-generation, family-owned lumber and building materials dealer serving custom homebuilders, contractors, remodelers, and homeowners across Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Do you want to learn how Simpson Strong-Tie is creating builder solutions to help get houses on the market faster?
Since many of us are relying more on online solutions, we’ve developed a builder webinar series highlighting new innovative product solutions that reduce labor time and help decrease the opportunity for misinstallations, while meeting code requirements.
Simpson Strong-Tie is proud to sponsor Building Safety Month. This annual event, which takes place over the entire month of May, is intended to raise awareness of building safety and all that it involves. The International Code Council pairs together professionals from the building construction, design and safety communities with corporations, government agencies, professional associations and nonprofits to promote building safety.
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This post examines several advantages of fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) applications over traditional shotcrete methods in the repair and reinforcement of concrete construction.
Continue reading “FRCM – An Alternative to Shotcrete for Structural Repair and Strengthening of Concrete”
Residences and low-rise commercial structures have been built using dimensional wood framing since the mid-19th century.
The first skyscraper ever built was erected with steel framing, however. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was completed in 1885 and was 10 stories tall.
Continue reading “What You Should Know About Cross-Laminated Timber Construction”
