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.
- Being aware of the big, bad seven is a step toward establishing a fairly-worded contract instead of a one-sided contract.
- “Pay-if-paid” or conditional payment provisions mean if the Builder is not paid by a project owner, the CM is not entitled to be paid.
- You are likely to see many lengthy insurance requirement provisions in most Builder contract forms.
- WTCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has presented many of the risk management and liability avoidance programs, which will soon be available online in an up-dated and modified format.
- At BCMC 2004, one question in the Manufacturers’ Roundtable was the im-portance of handling truss collapses proactively and the need to establish guidelines on how to properly conduct truss collapse investigations.
- Use a checklist to make sure you don’t skip an important step in your risk management procedures.
- Don’t reinvent the wheel—use the SCORE program, BCMC and ORisk as tools to develop best practices around.
- Effectively use attorneys, and be very careful when agreeing to allow an insurance company to defend you.
- Builders and condominium developers have seen an increase in construction defect lawsuit filings asserted by homeowners whose homes are valued far below their mortgage balances.
- The increased numbers of construction defect lawsuits will inevitably involve lower tier suppliers, including component manufacturers.
- Being able to document that a Jobsite Package was received by the customer and the truss erector is a risk management measure that can protect component manufacturers from products and completed operations risks.
- The benefit of belonging to an association is that it is the one place where a group of competitors can work to positively protect and advance the industry in which they are involved.
- The detriment of belonging to an association occurs when anti-free-market activities begin to take place.
- Knowing where competitors can collaborate and where not to tread is extremely important.
- Pre-start checklists can be likened to regular maintenance on your car at a "quick lube place"—fast and necessary.
- Having all of the safety hazards in order while managing your maintenance scheduling means that pre-start checklists will actually save you time in the long-run, and they may even save one of your employees from a possible injury, too!
- Gravity loads causes trusses to deflect.
- Dead loads are permanent loads.
- Camber is an upward curvature built into a truss to compensate for dead load deflection.
- Toyota is known for using lean manufacturing in its operations, and many manufacturers (like Shelter Systems) in our industry use them as well.
- Since acquiring lumber just in time isn’t possible, Shelter Systems adjusted its lean principles and decided to stockpile lumber to manage price volatility.
- The uncertainty created by lumber price volatility is a huge risk for all component manufacturers.
- Through SBCA, manufacturers could pool their purchasing power and get lumber producers to listen to concerns about this volatility and other issue
- Joe Hikel from Shelter Systems Limited (Westminster, MD) is this year’s SBCA President.
- Hikel worked up through the ranks in the family business, doing everything from component assembly to truss design to sales.
- SBCA plays a very important role in Shelter’s pursuit of running a state-of-the-art operation.
- BCSI recommends that lumber used for restraining and bracing trusses be stress-graded.
- Stress-graded lumber is graded for mechanical properties like strength and stiffness.
- Stress-graded lumber can be found in visual grades, MSR and MEL grades.
- AF&PA’s Supplement to the National Design Specification® (NDS®) includes the design values for all commercially available lumber in the U.S.
- Thank you for your SBCA membership!
- Our industry is unique in that we are willing to help people who need it more than we do.
- BCMC Build 2010 will take place September 27-28 in Charlotte.
