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.
The SBC Industry: Green Since 1952
Step-By-Step Process for Fall Protection & Trusses
Alternate Fall Protection Plan Template
Noise control is a common concern for homeowners and construction industry professionals alike. Similar to fire, sound follows the path of least resistance, and proper installation plays a significant role in the effectiveness of an assembly's sound transmission rating and/or fire endurance ratings. The following resources provide more information on fire rated and sound transmission assemblies.
One type of connection used in the manufacture of wood structural building components is the glued finger-joint. The relative newness of structural building components, and of the finger-joints which are used in them, has raised questions about their performance from the perspective of fire safety. This page provides documents and resources which address these questions.
Anti-Trust Law
Throughout its history, SBCA has complied with the antitrust laws and is not subject to any consent decree, cease and desist order, or any other mandate or prohibition of any agency of government or any court with respect to the antitrust laws.
In order to assure continued compliance with both the letter and the spirit of the antitrust laws, participants in SBCA and the local chapters are reminded of the following important policy:
View our current SBCA staff and reach out to them directly by phone or email. You may also select from a list of topics to send a request to staff.
Established in 1983, the Structural Building Components Association (SBCA) is the only international trade association representing manufacturers of structural building components. Its membership also includes truss plate suppliers, original equipment manufacturers and resellers, computer software companies, lumber suppliers, builders and professional individuals in the fields of engineering, marketing and management.
Allowable Top Chord Bearing Reaction Testing
In looking to the future, the SBC Industry Testing Task Group has identified the following areas to consider for the development of test plans:
Repair Types & Methods
Specifically, what are the true capacities or effects of holes in truss members; scabs including nails, screws and nails or screws with glue; gussets (single and double shear) with nails (clinched and non-clinched), screws and nails or screws with glue.
Ply-to-Ply Girder Connections
The National Framers Council will develop standards for framing field operations and management to be used as industry best practices, nationally.
Learn more about the National Framers Council (NFC), Cold-Formed Steel Council (CFSC), Truss Industry Business Council (TIBC) and the Equipment Council.
SBCA offers a number of resources to help draft a truss collapse response plan.
From a South Florida Invention to a Worldwide Industry!
If you have a contribution you would like to make to this compilation, please send it to timeline@sbcindustry.com. Submissions will be subject to approval and may be edited for grammar, length and clarity.
SBCA - Arizona (SBCA-AZ)