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Guidance Document

Promoting Roof Trusses to Builders & GCs

If you are interested in promoting your roof truss packages to builders and general contractors (GCs) who still rely on their framing crews to stick-frame a raftered roof, here are some tools you can use to begin that discussion.

Guidance Document

Promoting Roof Trusses to Framers

If you are interested in promoting your roof truss packages to framers who still prefer to stick-frame a raftered roof, here are some tools you can use to begin that discussion.

Presentation

Framing the American Dream: Roof Labor

This slide deck provides more information about the Framing the American Dream project, as well as more in-depth information about what was learned when comparing the two roof framing methods. These slides can be downloaded and customized in any way you choose.

Social Media

Create Less Waste

Using structural building components provide a positive environmental and economic benefit to the building process. Get that message out to your networks in this concise social media campaign: Create Less Waste.

Social Media

Use Less Wood Product

Framing with components is advantageous because less lumber is required in the construction process than with stick-framing. Get that message out to your networks in this concise social media campaign: Use Less Wood Product.

Social Media

Sell More Roof Trusses to Builders

Framing the American Dream data suggests that installing roof trusses completes the task of framing a building’s roof in less time, requires less framer skill and experience, and ultimately results in a roof that enables more open and flexible floor plans. Reach builder customers in your networks with these social media posts.

Social Media

Sell More Roof Trusses to Framers

Framing the American Dream data suggests that installing roof trusses completes the task of framing a building’s roof in less time, allowing the same framing crew to complete more roof projects over time. Reach framer customers in your networks with these social media posts.

Presentation

Framing The American Dream: What We Learned

This presentation provides a brief overview of what SBCA has learned from both the 1995 and 2015 Framing the American Dream projects. Use this material to give your audience the basic idea of the savings they can realize – in labor and materials –  by using structural building components.

Infographic

Framing the American Dream: 3 Main Messages

This project overview graphic provides a quick visual representation of the labor, waste and material savings of using components, based on findings from the 2015 Framing the American Dream study.

Framing the American Dream infographic main messages
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Installation

Long Span Truss Installation - Educational Program

This program provides information on the installation of long span trusses. 

Let SBCA Take You to the Next Level in 2017

SBCA is helping CMs take advantage of technology in the office and on the jobsite.

Planning for the New Year

Make this your year to reach out and build your SBCA network.

As we wrap up last year and plan for 2017, it’s important to assess what SBCA has done in order to set goals for the future. I recently joined the SBCA officers for a few days of doing just that, meeting the SBCA staff in Madison, Wisconsin. We shared ideas and discussed the challenges we’re facing—it was most enlightening. I want to highlight a few of the issues we discussed with the hope of getting everybody’s perspective as to how we move forward.

Broadcasting on All Channels

TheTrussCo takes its workforce development efforts outside the box—and onto the airwaves.

Communication Is Key

Learning what framers want and need is as simple as asking.

Supporting the Arts

Ric Thompson, a senior truss designer with Millard Lumber, is used to taking on a challenge. “I don’t do small jobs,” he said. “I only do monsters.” Still, some monsters are more monstrous than others. Ask him about BLUEBARN Theatre, and it’s clear that this project stands out.

The Poster Project

DIY safety messages have Plum’s production crew looking out for each other—and each other’s artwork.

Safety is often about statistics, inspections, reporting, paperwork…you get the picture. But Plum Building Systems in Osceola, Iowa has found a fun way to engage employees in the safety program: do-it-yourself safety posters.

Faces of the Industry: Jasper Diederiks

Meet Jasper Diederiks, Sales Manager at Heartland Truss.