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You Can’t Miss with a Near Miss Hotline

Clearspan Components improves safety and also collects leading indicators.

How We Build Our House

Core values live at the heart of Littfin Lumber’s ongoing success.

The Journey from Making Trusses to Making Laws

A CM turned state lawmaker uses business experience to help others.

How to Hire and Build High-Performing Teams

Implementing employee evaluations effectively can improve collaboration.

Faces of the Industry: Austin Huskey

In 1945, our family started the Huskey Company. My grandfather’s brother, Clay Huskey, was building houses around Nashville in the early 1940s. There were not many lumberyards in the area, so he used his connections with Alabama sawmills to personally truck lumber he needed for the houses they were building.

Parting Shots: Fun in the Sun!

The SBCA Open Quarterly Meetings (OQMs) aren’t all work and no play. In reality, the most important aspect of OQMs are the many opportunities to meet component manufacturers (CMs) from across the country and have meaningful conversations about every aspect of the industry.

CM Perspective: Jobsite Packages

Relationships with other component manufacturers (CMs), and suppliers help our company to be proactive instead of reactive.

Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) Paid Leave Resources

Effective April 1, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires private employers with less than 500 employees to provide Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Paid Expanded FMLA to employees under certain conditions.

Member Download FFCRA Leave Resources

SBCA’s Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has created three documents to help employers comply with the new FFCRA paid leave requirements, all of which are free to SBCA members!

Pro Forma Income Statement

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncertain business climate for many component manufacturers (CMs). To help provide some clarity, SBCA has developed a simple, yet powerful pro forma income statement with sensitivity analysis capabilities in Excel.

Member Download Pro Forma Income Statement

This tool is intended to help component manufacturers quickly capture the impacts revenue changes of varying percentages will have on their bottom line performance. 

Submit Questions for COVID-19 Podcasts with SBCA Exec Committee

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SBCA is hosting a weekly podcast conversation with members of its Executive Committee, discussing how their companies are impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic and what they are doing to overcome various challenges presented by the virus. 

Each podcast will focus more on what actual component manufacturers are doing in their businesses and less on the various legal questions (for employment law focused content, please review Kent Pagel’s recent webinar series).

SBCA is soliciting questions from component manufacturers for these podcasts. To submit a question, please fill out the form below. 

Dynamic Capacity Group on ICE Audits – What’s Ahead, What Triggers It & How to Prepare

This webinar will focus on Immigration and Custom Enforcement strategies in the coming months/years along with some tactics they use. We’ll also be covering the different ways an audit can be triggered and end with ways you can be prepared for a potential audit at your facility.

Download HR Policies & Templates (Member Only)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, component manufacturers (CMs) have been sharing various best practices they have implemented to assure employees, suppliers, and customers they are operating in accordance with state and local Executive Orders, as well as regulatory and federal law requirements.

HR Policies & Templates for Navigating COVID-19

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, component manufacturers (CMs) have been sharing various best practices they have implemented to assure employees, suppliers, and customers they are operating in accordance with state and local Executive Orders, as well as regulatory and federal law requirements.