Flatbed
Standard delivery. Your crew or equipment offloads. Lowest cost where there is a machine on site.
Bernalillo, New Mexico · Wall panels & structural components
Walls and roofs,
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Walls and roofs,
built before you break ground.
American Structural Solutions manufactures structural wall panels, roof trusses and floor trusses for builders, framers and general contractors. Send us the plans; we send back sealed drawings, a placement diagram and a delivery date.
Specializing in complexity
9Roof truss profiles
6Floor truss depths
32 ftFloor truss clear span
1Business day to quote
What we make
The whole structural package
Walls, roof and floor from one plant, on one schedule, from one set of approved drawings. No coordinating three suppliers and hoping the dimensions agree.
Panel line
Our panel line, BernalilloDay shift
Capability — Walls
Structural wall panels
Exterior and interior bearing walls built flat on jigged tables in controlled conditions, then delivered in erection sequence. Framing that takes a crew a week on site goes up in a day, square and plumb, with every opening already in it.
- Load-bearing and non-bearing, interior and exterior
- Openings, headers and bracing built in at the plant
- Sheathed or open, to suit your wrap and siding sequence
- Bundled and delivered in erection sequence
Fig. 01 — Common truss, Fink webNot to scale
Capability — Roof
Roof trusses, engineered per job
Common, scissor, attic, hip, mono, gable-end, piggyback and girder profiles in Fink, Howe, king-post and queen-post web configurations. Every truss designed for your span, pitch, loads and bearing conditions.
- Nine profiles, fabricated to ANSI/TPI 1
- Graded SPF, Douglas Fir-Larch and Southern Pine
- Galvanised 20- and 18-gauge connector plates
- Sealed truss design drawings with every order
Fig. 02 — Open-web floor trussNot to scale
Capability — Floor
Open-web floor trusses
Longer clear spans than dimensional joists, and an open chase for ductwork, plumbing and wiring. No drilling, no notching, and no field engineering to get a trunk line across a room.
- Depths from 12″ to 24″
- Clear spans to about 32 ft at 19.2″ on centre
- Open, ribbon or bearing-block end conditions
- Stair openings and cantilevers detailed in the shop
Fig. 03 — Multi-ply girderNot to scale
Capability — Engineering
The paperwork, handled
Most delays on a framing package are not fabrication. They are the drawings, the approvals and the hand-offs around them. Every order ships complete so your plan reviewer, your inspector and your crew each get what they need first time.
- Sealed truss design drawings, one per truss type
- Numbered placement diagram matched to the delivery bundles
- Hanger and connection schedule at girders and bearings
- BCSI handling, bracing and installation sheets
How we work
Plans in, trusses out
Five stages. The one that slips most often is approval — drawings sitting unsigned on a desk is the commonest reason a package misses its framing date.
01
Send the plans
Roof or floor framing plan as PDF or DWG. Dimensions, pitch and the governing load criteria are enough to start.
02
Takeoff & quote
We quantify every truss profile and return a priced takeoff you can check line by line against your plan.
03
Engineering
Sealed truss design drawings and a placement diagram issued for your approval before anything is cut.
04
Fabrication
Built to the approved drawings, inspected against ANSI/TPI 1 tolerances, and banded in placement sequence.
05
Delivery
Scheduled delivery to your site with the offload method agreed in advance, not decided at the gate.
Profile library
Every truss we build, drawn
Filter by type and select any profile to see it full size with its span range and typical use. Heavy lines are chords, orange lines are webs — the same convention as the sealed drawings you will receive.
The plant
Where your package gets built
Jigged assembly tables under cover, a laydown yard sized for full house packages, and a second shift when the schedule calls for it. Select any photograph to see it full size.
Night flyover — panel line to loading yard
1 min 25 sec
That is a second shift running, and the flatbeds loaded for the morning. Building in or near Bernalillo, New Mexico? Call ahead and come walk the line — it is the fastest way to judge whether a supplier can hold your schedule.
The group
Fifty years of framing New Mexico
American Structural Solutions is not a start-up with a new plant. It is the manufacturing arm of a family of companies that has been framing this state since the 1970s — and the reason our panels fit is that the people specifying them have spent their careers standing walls up.
Since the 1970s
Darrell Julian Construction
New Mexico’s premier framing contractor. Residential and commercial rough framing, with an in-house design team and field crews who have framed more than 800 homes in a single year.
The crews · darrelljulian.com
Since 1999
Tres Nietas, Inc.
The wall panel plant, founded on the principle that precise layout is what makes volume possible. Over three million lineal feet of panels, across more than ten thousand houses, shipped across the Southwest.
The plant · darrelljulian.com
Today
American Structural Solutions
Wall panels and structural components, engineered and manufactured for builders and framers who are not buying the labour — just the package, delivered in erection sequence to their own crew.
The components · A Darrell Julian CorporationDarrell Julian Construction and Tres Nietas share a site at darrelljulian.com. Same yard, same drawings, same tolerance — if you have framed with the crews or taken a panel package from the plant, you already know what arrives on the truck.
The panelized advantage
Plant-built vs stick-framed on site
Move the cutting off the job site and into the plant. Drag the slider to your building size and see what changes.
On-site labour
–60%Field hours
Material waste
–65%Jobsite waste
Weather delay
–80%Days lost to weather
Figures reflect typical industry ranges for plant-built wall panel and truss systems against site-cut framing; actual results vary by project, crew and plan. Request a formal quote for numbers specific to your job.
Ballpark
Truss package estimator
A rough order-of-magnitude number for a simple gable roof, so you know whether to keep reading. It counts trusses at 24″ on centre and applies a rate band by span.
It is not a quote. It assumes a straightforward rectangular roof with no hips, valleys, girders or unusual loads — and those are exactly the things that move a real price.
- Send plans for a takeoff you can check line by line
- Hips, valleys and girders change the count substantially
- Snow and wind loads change the lumber, and the price
Where we deliver
520 miles from the yard
We deliver across New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, West Texas and southern Nevada — a 520-mile radius from Bernalillo. That is most of the Southwest on one truck route.
- The yard 321 South Hill, Bernalillo, NM 87004 — call before visiting, the plant runs heavy equipment.
- Within 175 miles All of northern and central New Mexico, plus Durango and Roswell.
- Within 350 miles El Paso, Amarillo, Lubbock, Phoenix, Tucson, Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction and Flagstaff.
- Out to 520 miles Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Cheyenne, Abilene and Oklahoma City.
Distances are straight-line from the yard; road miles run longer, so confirm anything near the edge with us. Beyond 520 miles, ask anyway — on a full load the freight often still works.
Boom truck
We set the bundles where you want them, including onto a wall plate. Booked in advance.
Staged loads
Large packages split across loads in placement sequence, so nobody sorts a stack in the mud.
Site access
Tell us about tight turns, soft ground or overhead lines first. A truck that cannot get in is a lost day.
What we stand for
Three commitments
The three things contractors actually judge a truss supplier on, and what we hold ourselves to on each.
Response
Answer fast
A quote request gets a human reply within one business day, even when the reply is a question. We would rather tell you what is missing than sit on your plans.
Accuracy
Quote what we build
Our number comes from a takeoff you can check against your plan, not a square-foot rate. If we get it wrong, we own the difference.
Completeness
Ship complete
Sealed drawings, placement diagram, connection schedule and BCSI sheets go out with the load. No phone call needed to get started.
