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.
When it comes to getting the right structural building components for a project, cost isn’t everything, but how do you convince the building designer? Communication is key.
Truss industry standard of care items are contained throughout ANSI/TPI 1,* The National Standard for Metal Plate Connected Wood Truss Construction. The focus of this article is ANSI/TPI 1 Chapter 2, Section 2.3.5.1 and companion Section 2.4.5.1, which require a truss designer to prepare truss design drawings (TDD) based on design criteria and requirements set forth in the construction documents. The truss industry should expect to get this information from the building designer (BD), which may include the building owner, contractor or a registered design professional (RDP). Particularly when there is an RDP for the building, the design community expects the truss industry to design components that conform to the truss framing plan and specified design parameters within the construction documents, unless instructed otherwise in writing.
- There are many published installation guides available for product-specific applications, but few account for framing tolerances when dissimilar materials are integrated into the overall building and the expectations for overall performance.
- NFC’s Standards Development Sub-committee will begin outlining framing practices performed everyday where tolerances and known good performance have not been detailed in depth.
- The subcommittee will take a “through the eyes of a framer” point of view and provide step-by-step implementation guidelines and options.
A look at safe and proper handling and storage
SBCRI Testing & SBCA Research Reports can transform your market.
Woodhaven designed and built the roof and floor trusses for the Spruce Street Shul. Woodhaven also supplied the lumber and hardware for the project.
The first two Standard of Care articles discussed deferred submittals and truss-to-truss connections. This article explores truss minimum required bearing width issues from the perspective of the design community.
- A lot has changed in the components industry over the past two decades, and a new Framing the American Dream (FAD) project would allow us to quantify just how much, as well as detail our product’s benefits over other framing methods.
- Beyond FAD, SBCA is also focusing on helping component manufacturers across the country fight an unfair provision in the model building code, R501.3.
- As you think about investing in the future of your business, think about how much you’re willing to invest this year in these two projects to ensure a bright future for our industry.
- You must have continuous training in order to have a training system work.
- In addition to FrameSAFE and Toolbox Talks, NFC will release FrameSAFE Safety Posters in early 2015.
- FrameSAFE is more than just a safety manual; we’ve created it to be a training tool that workers and employers can use to find everything they need in one product.
While one of the most critical concerns in a manufacturing facility, machine guarding isn’t as simple or easy as it sounds.
Good truck drivers make good decisions.
- When there’s no effective tie-off point for a building, framers have to use a job-specific best practices approach.
- Both Hull and Shifflett agree it is in the best interest of component manufacturers to work with framers to create best practice approaches to fall protection.
- The long-term goal is to host an online database that GCs and framing teams can visit to know who in their industry participates, trains and follows the same safety guidelines.
With no visible trauma or scars, it’s easy for hearing loss to go unnoticed, but the good news is, it’s preventable.
Many potential complaints and problems can be mitigated by an astute truss technician during the design phase.
Lean Six Sigma is a mountainous challenge, but there are some basic ways to prepare for the climb.
“We wouldn’t be where we are today without all our employees. They’re the lifeblood of what we do.”
Three key steps to get you headed down the right path.
Finding the best, fastest, most efficient process has always been part of the culture for this component manufacturer.
