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"The project looked daunting at first," says Dean Lessei, truss designer at Cascade. "So, I poured myself into the designs and pictured how it would come out." The project is a three-story, 67-unit assisted living center in Madison, Wis. It's being built by PDC Midwest Inc., an award-winning, Hartland, Wis.-based design-build firm that specializes in senior living communities. "Our typical building is 27,000 square-feet. This one is 67,000 square-feet," says Jim Hirsch, con- struction manager at PDC Midwest "It's almost three times the size of our normal project." How did cold-formed steel trusses and a talented team solve special demands to create a distinctive resi- dence for seniors? 175 Truss Profiles While PDC Midwest and Cascade have worked together for years, this project was large and had special requirements. The residence is meant to stand out among similar assisted living centers in the area. "The facility has many exterior planes and multiple gables to break up an otherwise overwhelming roof mass," says Tim Einwalter, ALA, project architect at PDC Midwest. "The TrusSteel system from Alpine provides a great deal of design f lex- ibility and enhances the building's overall appearance." To accommodate open and expansive interiors with minimal bearing walls, the project's architects and engineers needed trusses to span long distances. The design also called for a custom catwalk in the attic. The catwalk, Ein- walter says, was required by the munic- ipality, since the trusses would run 4 feet-on-center. That distance would be too much for maintenance personnel to have to leap, truss to truss, in order to make their attic inspections. 18 | Walls & Ceilings | June 2015 An assisted living building featuring long-span trusses and a built-in catwalk has given the team at Cascade Mfg Co, of Cascade, Iowa, a feather in their cap. 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