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SBCA Marketing Committee Chair, Jess Lohse, takes a quick look back at this year's BCMC and anticipates an even better show in Milwaukee in 2015! Will you accept his challenge?
The purpose of this article series is to identify truss-related structural issues sometimes missed due to the day-in and day-out demands of truss design/production and the fragmented building design review and approval process. This series will explore issues in the building market that are not normally focused upon, and provide recommended best-practice guidance.
- SCORE’s focus on best practices and risk management helps protect the component business and saves CMs on precious training resources.
- In an effort to make the program and costs more understandable, SCORE certification requirements have been streamlined, while still focusing on industry best practices that matter most to CM customers.
- The new package pricing gives CMs the opportunity to meet SCORE requirements, at a reduced cost, and begin to reap the benefits from key SBCA programs and products.
- Before a new truss designer designs their first truss, it’s a good idea to have technicians work as a helper on a truss production team.
- Understand the personal characteristics, education and knowledge of your plant personnel because often talent is there that is unexplored and unrealized.
- Training a new designer is an ongoing process that takes time. When you have good designers trained, you will want to do everything you can to keep them employed with you.
- The focus should be on developing a system each company can continuously evolve in order to avoid becoming stagnant as the market improves.
- In order to bring in qualified people, initially, companies need to define, write out and fine-tune a recruitment process.
- You need to develop a pipeline of candidates and not wait for the need to arise.
- In order for a company to grow successfully, it needs to evaluate its current situation and costs accurately and be able to articulate what the company wants to grow into.
- To improve production areas, start with the “5S” approach: sort, straighten, scrub/sanitize, schedule and finally, score the result.
- The right people, the right customers, the right vendors, and most importantly, the right motives grow a successful business.
At 3,426 square feet, the 2014 BCMC Build project was the most ambitious house built over the weekend prior to the BCMC show. With the help of several volunteers, including a professional framing crew supplied by US Framing, the house went from a bare slab to a fully framed and sheathed building in just four days!
- Inadequate communication can fragment the various trades working on a project and lead to costly mistakes and frustrating delays.
- GCs are looking to turnkey framing as a way to minimize that fragmentation and reduce waste and the potential for mistakes.
- The efficiencies of the turnkey approach with componentized framing make it the best solution going forward.
- Component manufacturers have to be proactive locally in pursuing those outside the industry, including building officials, members of the fire service, specifiers, framers and lawmakers.
- It’s not hard to put a value on having eyes and ears like theirs in the market, when they are willing to look out for your business while they’re doing their jobs.
- The more smoothly the installation of CM products goes, the less issues we have to confront in the field and the less we have to overcome challenging building code provisions, the more builders will want to buy and install our products.
SBCA Marketing Committee Chair, Jess Lohse, explores the importance of building relationships in our industry.
At this year’s SBCA Annual meeting, held in conjunction with BCMC in Charlotte, NC, the industry’s annual awards were announced:
The component industry is full of complex documentation, from blueprints and truss design drawings to bids and contracts. Reading these documents effectively and knowing what to look for can make the difference between a profitable job and a huge headache. This article will discuss some of the easy mistakes that can be made and advise on processes that can help reduce the chance they occur.
why accurate design values are so vital to structural design.
Introduction: Why the Interior Finish Installation Is Important
building design review and approval process, and the
issues it can create for component manufacturers.
- When it comes to jobsite safety, fragmentation within the construction industry creates obstacles that shouldn’t be there (and don’t have to be).
- It’s very difficult for framing companies to develop a consistent culture of safety when the jobsite-specific safety plan changes from jobsite to jobsite.
- FrameSAFE provides a standardized approach to safety communication and shares universal best practices when it comes to safe behavior and jobsite hazard mitigation.
- Incoming SBCA President Rick Parrino sees a lot of opportunity for the industry to grow and further change the way homes are framed.
- Parrino shares his experiences getting to know local building officials, giving educational presentations and trying to be a good resource for builders, framers, specifiers, firefighters and code officials.
- Parrino’s goal is to encourage CMs to begin building more relationships with the individuals inside our local markets that can have a big impact on our business.
They are not lending much to home buyers, and they're lending even less to single-family home builders, but banks are doling out big money to apartment developers.
BCSI Canada includes Canadian references, installation tolerances aligned with local practices, and design related tables consistent with the Canadian design standard.
Component Manufacturers - These companies manufacture and sell trusses, wall panels, related structural components and/or subcomponents.
Associate Members - These companies supply products, equipment, machinery or services to Component Manufacturers. This category includes professional members.
SBCA Marketing Chair Jess Lohse reflects on the value of our industry's association and looks ahead to BCMC!
Don't miss all that this year's show has to offer in Charlotte, NC!
In 2015, SBC Magazine will embark on an ambitious project. In each of its nine issues, we will begin to record the history of the components industry through the eyes of several of its early pioneers.
It is an understatement to say a lot has happened over the past decade in our industry. In 2004, we were Revvin’ Up the Components Industry with a little over 1.9 million housing starts (see above right). Little did anyone know, the housing market would top out at 2.1 million housing starts the very next year. When BCMC returned to Charlotte in 2010 (see above left), housing starts had spent their second year under an unimaginably low total of 600,000. This year, we return to Charlotte, Standing Strong and Gearing Up for Growth, experiencing our first year over one million starts since 2007. Will we see you in our photos of BCMC 2014?
- The following Technical Q&A has been updated from the version that appeared in the 2006 June/July issue of SBC.
- Lateral restraints are installed to reduce the buckling length of the web(s), but must be restrained laterally to prevent the webs to which they are attached from buckling together in the same direction.
- BCSI-B3, Permanent Restraint/Bracing of Chords and Web Members, provides general industry recommendations and methods for restraining web members against buckling.
- The whole premise of NFC is to help the framing industry grow and develop through best practice-based standards.
- Having a more standardized approach to framing will make the whole building construction process easier.
- I believe every component manufacturer should get involved in NFC, become a member of this fledgling organization, and help support its mission and objectives.
- My heart, as always, was to serve our members and SBCA staff to the best of my ability.
- Support SBCA with your membership, your donations, your time, and your love and passion for our industry.
- I’m turning this over to one of my great friends and mentors—a man who I have so much respect and admiration for, Mr. Rick Parrino.
Read about our various Legislative conferences:
- Storming the Capitol: Bringing Focus onto the Components Industry
- Hitting the Hill: Sharing with Congress Our Industry's Perspective
- Building Powerful Connections: 2011 SBC Legislative Conference Recap & Talking Points
- NASCongress: 2010 SBC Legislative Conference Recap
- SBC Legislative Conference Recap: The Do-Everything Congress
- 2008 SBC Legislative Conference Recap
- 2007 Legislative Conference: Building New Partnerships
- 2006 SBC Legislative Conference: Building Relationships
- 2005 SBC Legislative Conference - Building Momentum!
- 2004 WTCA Legislative Conference Recap: Banding Together for Booming Voice