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Clearspan Components improves safety and also collects leading indicators.
Core values live at the heart of Littfin Lumber’s ongoing success.
A CM turned state lawmaker uses business experience to help others.
Implementing employee evaluations effectively can improve collaboration.
In his fourth presentation focused on employer guidance regarding the COVID-19 Coronavirus, Kent Pagel, SBCA legal counsel and president of Pagel, Davis and Hill, gives a brief follow up on some of the topics he has covered in his past webinars.
In 1945, our family started the Huskey Company. My grandfather’s brother, Clay Huskey, was building houses around Nashville in the early 1940s. There were not many lumberyards in the area, so he used his connections with Alabama sawmills to personally truck lumber he needed for the houses they were building.
The SBCA Open Quarterly Meetings (OQMs) aren’t all work and no play. In reality, the most important aspect of OQMs are the many opportunities to meet component manufacturers (CMs) from across the country and have meaningful conversations about every aspect of the industry.
Relationships with other component manufacturers (CMs), and suppliers help our company to be proactive instead of reactive.
Effective April 1, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires private employers with less than 500 employees to provide Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Paid Expanded FMLA to employees under certain conditions.
If you are not a member, please fill out this brief form to be contacted by SBCA staff to purchase and receive access to the three documents to help employers comply with the new FFCRA paid leave requirements.
SBCA’s Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has created three documents to help employers comply with the new FFCRA paid leave requirements, all of which are free to SBCA members!
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncertain business climate for many component manufacturers (CMs). To help provide some clarity, SBCA has developed a simple, yet powerful pro forma income statement with sensitivity analysis capabilities in Excel.
This tool is intended to help component manufacturers quickly capture the impacts revenue changes of varying percentages will have on their bottom line performance.
If you are not a member, please fill out this brief form to be contacted by SBCA staff to purchase and receive access to the Pro Forma Income Statement.
SBCA is hosting a weekly podcast conversation with members of its Executive Committee, discussing how their companies are impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic and what they are doing to overcome various challenges presented by the virus.
Each podcast will focus more on what actual component manufacturers are doing in their businesses and less on the various legal questions (for employment law focused content, please review Kent Pagel’s recent webinar series).
This webinar will focus on Immigration and Custom Enforcement strategies in the coming months/years along with some tactics they use. We’ll also be covering the different ways an audit can be triggered and end with ways you can be prepared for a potential audit at your facility.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, component manufacturers (CMs) have been sharing various best practices they have implemented to assure employees, suppliers, and customers they are operating in accordance with state and local Executive Orders, as well as regulatory and federal law requirements.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, component manufacturers (CMs) have been sharing various best practices they have implemented to assure employees, suppliers, and customers they are operating in accordance with state and local Executive Orders, as well as regulatory and federal law requirements.
SBCA’s Cold-Formed Steel Council (CFSC) provides supporting documentation relating to Cold-formed steel (CFS) truss quality control.
The following webinars, podcasts and training videos are a great way to get your staff engaged in component manufacturing industry topics while they are working from home.
The repair and modification of metal plate connected wood trusses can be a very complicated subject, because each situation must be analyzed individually. Common situations that require repairs include: damage to the truss from delivery, handling, installation, adverse environments, fire, and manufacturing mistakes. Whatever the reason for a repair, the principles followed are similar. The truss repair must result in a truss that is able to carry all loads intended for the truss. This webinar covers the key concepts involved with a truss repair.
As individuals, businesses, and governments continue to take actions to mitigate or contain the worldwide impact of COVID-19, component manufacturers (CMs) ought to consider including language in their proposals/bids and customer contract forms giving them a potential out to avoid breach of contract liability if and when they are unable to make deliveries through no fault of their own, such as in the case of COVID-19 rendering their plant inoperable.
SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has drafted template contractual language that serves as a model for CMs to include in their proposals/bids and customer contracts, as a means to set out under what circumstances CMs as suppliers of building materials, can be excused for performance when unforeseen circumstances, beyond their control, prevent, delay or hinder that performance.
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According to an online survey of component manufacturers (CMs), 96 percent of respondents indicated they have had a plumber damage or modify their products after installation.
The true test of someone’s character, or something’s value, is not when times are going well but when there is a crisis.
Why lean concepts apply just as well to a company’s culture
CMs can expand their recruiting pool through old-fashioned legwork
An industry outsider strives to open a truss plant near Cancun
The SBCA Combustible Dust Housekeeping program contains all you need to assess your company’s risk for combustible dust citations during an OSHA inspection and implement an effective housekeeping program for your production facility.