Representing Manufacturers of Engineered Floor, Wall and Roof Structural Components
Structural Building Components Association
This webinar will focus on the construction industry workflow (CIWF) framework as both a workforce development tool and a means to illustrate the various ways information, goods, and services flow to and from a component manufacturer.
SBCA’s legal counsel, Kent Pagel, will start his series of 2020 webinars discussing legal topics first and foremost on the minds of component manufacturers.
Leaders within a component manufacturing plant often wear multiple hats, including human resources. Learn new ideas and best practices for hiring new employees, creating a positive workplace culture, and understanding applicable HR-related regulations.
As business leaders, we are constantly sending clear direction to our employees and colleagues. When it comes to workplace safety, people watch our actions as much as they hear our words, if not more. We need to make sure our actions match our words and values as much as possible to create an injury-free safety culture.
This webinar provides an overview of important information contained in the BCSI booklet. Attend this SBCA Webinar and have a change to win a copy of the Building Component Safety Information Book.
Hear from Shawnee Gunnett, a structural estimator with Big C Lumber in Dowagiac, Michigan, as she discusses her involvement with local trade advisory boards, and how she approaches her local schools to foster mutually beneficial relationships.
The design of structural building components requires a clear understanding of design loads and their application on the structure. It is essential that this information be provided by the building designer, while also essential that all applied loads are easily understood by everyone involved in creating the building design and developing the structural framework resistance. To assist its members, SBCA (in cooperation with the Truss Plate Institute) created a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program called the SBCA Load Guide that is essentially a comprehensive applied loads calculator that references ASCE 7 and the building code. The workbook contains spreadsheets that accept user input in order to calculate live, dead, snow and wind loads.
The Load Guide was created for use by building designers (architects and engineers), building code officials, component manufacturers, truss designer engineers and truss technicians, with the goal of helping users more easily understand, define and specify all the loads that should be applied to the design of each structural building component. It’s important to note this is a guide, or calculator, and is not intended to replace engineering analysis nor engineering judgment.
The Load Guide provides summary sheets for roof truss and floor truss live and environmental load calculations based on the various ASCE 7 input parameters. It also provides a handy dead load calculator for materials commonly used in light frame construction. These summary sheets are linked to commentary pages which include code commentary and referenced interpretations, examples and discussion regarding application of loads.
In spring of 2016, SBCA updated The Load Guide to the 2015 International Building Code (IBC), the 2015 International Residential Code (IRC), 2015 NDS and the 2014 TPI 1. Commentary shows the provisions of ASCE 7-10 and how the changes to ASCE 7-10 have evolved from ASCE 7-05. Older codes and their references were removed to stay current within the three most current code cycles (2009, 2012 and 2015).
Contact SBCA staff if you have any questions on the content or use of the SBCA Load Guide.
The SBCA Load Guide is available to anyone at no cost. The only requirement is that you enter your name and valid email address in the form below so we can contact you with any future revisions. Once you've submitted the form you will be able to download the load guide.
