Representing Manufacturers of Engineered Floor, Wall and Roof Structural Components
Structural Building Components Association
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 webinar delivers two perspectives on the use of staffing agencies. Mike will offer tips on building good relationships with temp agencies and educating them about what he does in order to smooth the process of bringing folks on board. Scott will provide a counter-point perspective on why he's moved away from working with temp agencies and what he does instead to find new hires.
Whether it’s a major or minor part of your business, selling trusses to lumberyards, distributors and other manufacturers can be a significant risk. Learn how to limit your liability and manage your risks in resale contracts.
Join us as we explore this question and discuss why building materials are often blamed for fires, particularly those that occur in buildings under construction, and why the finger doesn’t get pointed elsewhere. Panelists will discuss the many different ways fires start and provide attendees with a better understanding of root causes, which will help solve fire risks during construction with the goal to prevent fires from occurring.
The U.S. government is increasingly making it more difficult for manufacturers to find people willing and qualified to work in the plant. Similarly, federal lawmakers are not doing enough to address ongoing trade disputes with other countries, which is raising the costs of raw materials. Join the webinar to hear more about these topics, and what you can do to help the building component industry.
In today’s tight labor market, component manufacturers are competing with a variety of different industries for the same people. Since every new hire’s assimilation into the plant’s value chain has an immediate impact on its efficiency and the team members that operate it, it is imperative that we try and get the best fit possible. In order to stop the revolving door of production employees, a company must hire smarter. To do so, it must first align its mindset on how to best identify ideal people with ideal behaviors.
Did you miss the Open Quarterly Meeting in Nashville? Spend some time with SBCA President Jim Finkenhoefer as he provides an update on current SBCA initiatives, including new marketing materials available to CMs and the progress being made regarding component manufacturing QC. Designed to keep SBCA members apprised of the work of their association, this roundtable-style webinar will include plenty of time for questions and discussion.
This presentation will provide an overview of the code development process as well as specific proposed changes to the National Model building codes that could affect component manufacturers. We will also discuss general topic areas that are getting a lot of attention at the code hearings and how these could affect the future of construction.
To reduce accidents, injuries, illnesses and their related costs, safety and health must become a core management issue in your company like production, sales or quality control. To be most effective, safety and health must be balanced with, and incorporated into, other core business processes. Learn how to build the necessary culture in your facility to promote safety while exploring the responsibilities every person – from the CEO to your newest production employee – must accept to achieve success.
Building an effective and efficient production team goes well beyond finding the right people. If you’re taking the time to assess new hires to start a career path in the truss industry, you must also take the time to properly motivate those employees by implementing and maintaining free flowing engagement throughout your company’s structure, top-down and bottom-up. This webinar will take a closer look at how applying an understanding of human needs to employee engagement can transform your company’s culture.
As component manufacturers, we buy, design, manufacture, sell and warrant lumber in the form of a wood truss. That is what we do! But do we closely consider the risks and liabilities that lumber presents to the component manufacturer? Are there ways to manage these risks? This session will examine the risks and corresponding best practices component manufacturers can follow when buying lumber, designing with lumber, manufacturing with lumber, and selling and warranting a lumber value added product.
This webinar is a first in a series that will discuss the minimum load requirements for the design of trusses that are subject to building code requirements. Part 1 will review some of the common definitions often used when describing loads. It will also cover the basic load combinations prescribed by the building code as well as dead loads and live loads.
Selling trusses shouldn’t always be about the cost. Structural building components turn a building’s plans into reality, providing more value than just the wood. In this preview to a BCMC educational session, Chris Lambert discusses ways to build relationships with existing and potential customers so that cost isn’t the only thing you’re selling.
This webinar is a second in a series that will discuss the minimum load requirements for the design of trusses that are subject to building code requirements.
