Several of the three-minute videos in this library are separated into two audience categories: “builder customer” and “framer customer.” The code required to embed the video on your company’s website is provided with each video below. Review the Toolbox Guidance Documents to explore how these videos can be used to promote specific products or your overall marketing campaign in conjunction with other CM Toolbox materials.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SBCA is helping CMs take advantage of technology in the office and on the jobsite.
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.
TheTrussCo takes its workforce development efforts outside the box—and onto the airwaves.
Learning what framers want and need is as simple as asking.
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.
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.
Meet Jasper Diederiks, Sales Manager at Heartland Truss.
