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- The 2012 IRC does not provide sufficient details on how to connect wood trusses to braced wall panels.
- SBCA has developed a couple of details and will continue to develop standard details that provide code-compliant connections between roof/floor trusses and braced wall panels.
- Component manufacturers can provide framers with specialty or standardized blocking panel products to reduce the time needed to install the blocking between trusses for these connections.
- Successfully constructing a building today takes effective communication and collaboration between building architects, structural designers, component manufacturers and framing labor contractors.
- NFC’s first focus is to develop a national safety program for framing contractors.
- NFC also plans to develop a scope of work document outlining standard responsibilities for framers and subcontractors.
- We need to focus on our younger employees now and groom them to become the next generation of leaders in our companies and in our industry.
- Just like raising kids, building leaders is accomplished through a million small conversations, learning moments, completed tasks and informal evaluations with feedback.
- There has to be a commitment on your part to ensure the employees you mentor learn everything they can about their jobs and the business.
When designed and installed correctly, components can greatly reduce the time and materials required to frame a structure.
Jess Lohse (Rocky Mountain Truss) returns again this month to provide a component manufacturer's perspective on the contents of the new March issue. We hope you enjoy it as much as he seemed to!
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.
Ever have one of those component jobs where everything went exactly to plan, only to have a hiccup at the last moment?
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Floor trusses are the solution to many floor framing challenges presented in today's complex and sophisticated building designs. In addition to the space allowed for mechanical and plumbing runs, floor trusses can reduce framing time, material waste and callbacks.
See the resources below for more information on how to specify, install and brace floor trusses.
Investing in a standardized, comprehensive safety program minimizes the risks faced by both your employees and your company. SBCA’s customizable template materials, developed specifically for the component industry, can help you implement a consistent, measurable in-plant safety program through education, training and certification.
From a South Florida Invention to a Worldwide Industry!
If you have a contribution you would like to make to this compilation, please send it to timeline@sbcindustry.com. Submissions will be subject to approval and may be edited for grammar, length and clarity.
SBCA offers a number of resources to help draft a truss collapse response plan.
Have you ever wished SBC Magazine had a brief summary of the great stuff inside each issue? Your wish has been granted! This year we are giving Jess Lohse (Rocky Mountain Truss) an advanced copy of the magazine each month and asking him to write down his thoughts about what he reads. Thanks, Jess, for giving us your CM perspective!
“Think more about the problems customers face and figure out a way you can solve it by improving upon what you already produce.”
Name: Seth Stormoen
Company: Blenker Building Systems
Position: Project Manager
Years in the industry: 14
Time sure has flown by since construction began in October 2013 on the BCMC Build house. The photos above compare the work done during the show with recent progress on the project, and the home is tentatively scheduled for completion in February.
- 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.
- 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.
- Everyone buying raw materials for structural components or conventional framing applications is purchasing design values and related properties for use in engineering equations to resist loads for a given load path.
- It is not well known that lumber design values are global in nature and not specific to the piece of lumber being used.
- Design values written into the building code become the law, whether they are scientifically correct or not.
- If the law is treated forthrightly as written, professional engineers have great value in the market.
- 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.
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