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 issue of SBC Magazine focuses on grassroots activities within the industry and also houses the annual membership listing.
- The cover story features Boozer Lumber, a South Carolina component manufacturer with a new perspective on sustainability.
- Another feature honors the life of Robert Mort, Sr.
- The concept of "shear-out" is explained in this issue’s technical feature article.
- Hiring and training locally, also referred to as the "homegrown" method, has the greatest potential for meeting the industry’s need for technicians.
- Many potential technicians can be found in the local technical college, and some may start in the shop and work their way up.
- Component manufacturers have been successful with employing homegrown technicians; one reason is they come up through the ranks, and the pay is competitive with the typical salaries for these jobs in the industry.
- V.2 includes updated references to the IBC & IRC 2003 codes and ASCE7-02.
- A new delivery method simplifies navigation and course material downloads.
- A new feature provides all content in text format for hearing impaired users.
- The WTCA Board voted unanimously to pass a resolution changing the name of the association to "WTCA – Represent-ing the Structural Building Components Industry."
- A management committee resolution was passed to change the Wage & Benefit and Financial Performance survey policy.
- Two new technical staff members have been hired, and the number of professional engineers on staff has increased to four.
- The design of the research and testing facility is nearing completion.
- A user-friendly automated saw requires a willing learner to handle its operator-dependent functions.
- Most automated saws today have some form of production reporting, including a comprehensive picture of everything that is going on at the machine.
- Boozer Lumber has taken a humanistic approach to employee training to accommodate the needs of a changing work force.
- The training strategy is vastly different from the traditional cerebral and academic-focused leadership training.
- One significant element of Boozer’s training involves employees’ career-long journey to self-awareness.
- The company’s culture change has positively impacted its bottom line and has allowed Boozer to differentiate itself from the competition.
- The Western Component Manufacturers Association has taken an active role in educating local and state building officials in Oregon.
- Through its educational efforts, WCMA has begun to forge relationships with the building inspector community.
- In the last six months, WCMA has been invited to participate in several meetings with the inspectors, who have been very receptive to the manufacturers’ information.
- The future of the industry is cemented in the simple truth that by using trusses, manufacturers can design more complex roof lines than with stick framing.
- The industry is entrepreneurial.
- Past presidents noted the far-reaching effects that consolidation could have on the industry and its leadership.
- Development and involvement of leadership from the larger companies in the industry is essential.
- A new design check, initially termed “chunk-out,” appeared in the truss design process with the adoption of TPI 1-2002.
- The appropriate technical term for chunk-out is actually “shear-out.”
- Understanding shear-out requires defining the stress distribution around the plate and comparing the magnitude of stresses to the wood shear strength under the plate.
- Future finite element stress analysis and testing has been planned in order to define the nominal stresses associated with the shear-out condition.
- 38 percent of survey respondents indicated they attend BCMC to exchange ideas with other manufacturers.
- Many manufacturers take ideas from BCMC home and determine how they can be implemented.
- Toe-nailing has long been recognized in building codes as an acceptable means of attaching wood members to wood bearing walls.
- WTCA has submitted a code change proposal to the IRC regarding the truss-to-wall connection requirements.
- SNCMA joined forced with the Struc-tural Engineers Association of Southern Nevada (SEASoN) by forming a truss committee within the engineers’ group.
- Using teamwork, the two groups successfully resolved issues surrounding drag loads and uplift.
- Most recently, SNCMA and WTCA staff provided content for SEASoN’s design responsibilities document based on language in WTCA/TPI 1 Chapter 2.
- This issue of SBC Magazine is devoted to design and engineering advancements.
- The cover story highlights a design challenge that Pioneer Truss couldn’t pass up. Though the structure was small, the effort it took to design and build the trusses with ultimate precision for it was not.
- In February, BMC West graciously welcomed members of the fire service to its facility in the Portland area. Atten-dees seemed most impressed with the truss design software and the overall level of professionalism displayed during the tour.
