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 designed and installed correctly, components can greatly reduce the time and materials required to frame a structure.
In upcoming issues of SBC Magazine, we are going to look at the top ten training needs for component manufacturers, walk through the issues associated with each of those training needs, and provide guidance on industry best practices for offering basic through advanced training.
By creating national standards, based on field-tested best practices, the National Framers Council (NFC) will not only help improve the safety of each worker on the jobsite, it will aid in reducing ambiguity in everything from OSHA jobsite inspections to residential fall protection.
- The most effective way to avoid recurrent issues with component installation is to give an SBCA Jobsite Package to the general contractor and framing crew on every job.
- Simply having your driver drop the Jobsite Package off with the component package at the jobsite isn’t enough.
- Anytime you work with a GC or an inexperienced crew for the first time, consider visiting with them ahead of delivery and walk them through the information in the jobsite package.
- Use of galvanized box nails may result in shear walls with a shear capacity significantly below the nominal unit shear capacities given in SDPWS.
- Thus, the majority of WSP shear walls have a shear capacity with a high degree of design value variability. This may have unintended consequences that are unknown and unappreciated by the professional engineering and/or building design community.
- Once SBCA and SBCRI were certain their testing and engineering analysis was consistent and repeatable, they were persistent in bringing all WSP shear wall performance issues to the attention of APA, AWC, ICC-ES and ICC.
Ever have one of those component jobs where everything went exactly to plan, only to have a hiccup at the last moment?
Last summer, Superstorm Sandy caused an estimated $65 billion worth of damage in the U.S., a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina in American history. Sandy was the largest hurricane on record to hit the Atlantic Coast, at over 1,100 miles in diameter. So while it hit the New Jersey shores the hardest, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, its disastrous effects were felt as far inland as Wisconsin and Michigan.
While the chaos and destruction wrought by this powerful natural force is sobering, it’s hard not to simultaneously focus on the positive stories that came out of such events. One such story is that of Cussewago Truss LLC in Cambridge Springs, PA. It’s a tale of the marvels of wood, the value of engineering and the fruits of a well-executed plan.
Design efficiency is critical, but it can’t overshadow design quality.
- The National Framers Council (NFC) was formed as a council of SBCA to give framers a national organization that will focus on best practices in jobsite safety and building material installation.
- NFC’s goal is for each framer to leave the jobsite every day in the same health as when they arrived.
- The more framers and CMs interact, the more we will be able to identify framing and component implementation issues in the field and find solutions where both industries win.
- If you frequently or generally need to provide other instruction/training or everyday communication in Spanish, OSHA says you also need to provide your safety training in Spanish.
- Several of SBCA’s component manufacturing, industry-specific programs are available in English and Spanish.
- Understanding how the computer software automatically loads a truss can help designers avoid unintended consequences when optimizing trusses.
- When fascia loads are missing from a project, there is incorrect loading on the jack trusses, sub girders and the corner girder/hip jack.
- Missing loads can lead to extensive repairs and may even require that the trusses be revised.
Understanding your CGL policy—and its limitations—is an important component of every truss manufacturer’s risk management and liability avoidance strategy.
“Think more about the problems customers face and figure out a way you can solve it by improving upon what you already produce.”
For Cascade, gambrel trusses were just one unique aspect of an entirely unusual project
- Effective employee training on jobsite safety requires an approach that combines good information with consistent messages and continuous delivery.
- The NFC’s Site-Specific Fall Protection Plan is being added to the already robust FrameSAFE program.
- Safety is everyone’s responsibility. Effective training is the best way employers can “help their employees help themselves” to work safely on the jobsite.
“All the builders and framers I talk to out there say the same thing: they can’t find enough guys to do what they want to do.” Those are the thoughts of Jason Blenker, president of Blenker Building Systems. If national surveys and media reports are accurate, the sentiment is shared by most of the construction industry across the country.
Floor systems are as key to making framing better, faster and more cost effective as wall panels and roof trusses.
The purpose of changing the dues policy is to ensure everyone contributes on a more even footing to the organization.