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 following article provides SBCA's proposed best practice Truss Placement Diagram note language for CMsto use as a standardize approach with respect to defining their scope of work.
Proposed Sample TPD Note Language
At the recent July SBCA Open Quarterly Meeting (OQM) in Madison, WI, the membership discussed the importance of raw material design values and their impact on component manufacturers (CM).
As noted in the following three articles:
The SBCA Truss Plate Council, Executive Committee and Board of Directors have been working on individual sample best practice language for component manufacturers. They are as follows:
SBCA's Design Software policy makes it clear the software and intellectual property should reside in the hands of the CM. Originally passed in 2002, the plate suppliers in attendance (Eagle, Alpine, MiTek and Simpson) all reiterated their unequivocal support for this policy and pledged to continue monitoring the use of its software and resolving instances where the software may be used contrary to this policy.
This presentation provides information on 2-Hour Calculated Fire Assemblies for Metal Plate Connected Wood Truss Structural Floor and Roof Framing Systems.
While the perception of floor vibrations is subjective from one person to the next, overall floor systems which exhibit lower deflections and less acceleration from vibration sources tend to be perceived better than other designs. To accomplish this, the designer may elect to do one or a combination of things, covered in this report.
[A] 104.11 Alternative materials, design and methods of construction and equipment.