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Builders Warehouse Manufacturing • Aurora, Colorado
In May of 2018, Door Creek Church broke ground on their new DeForest Campus just minutes north of Madison, Wisconsin. The church was given ten acres by a local developer in what amounts to a suburb of Madison on the edge of urban reach mixed with strong agricultural ties. Originally, a metal building was designed for the church but costs redirected the church’s architect to wood frame construction.
Rebuilding a historic church after a ruinous fire was a project not to be forgotten.
Educate your customers and protect your business with best practice information regarding handling and installing components.
Meet two new members of the SBCA Board of Directors.
I’m honored to serve as SBCA’s new executive director.
Finding the best, fastest, most efficient process has always been part of the culture for this component manufacturer.
Sometimes it’s hard to start a conversation. You know what you want to say, you think you know how the person you’re talking to will react, and yet finding the words to get the ball rolling and respond to the questions you know you’ll get is tough.
Innovation is a word that is currently criticized in the business world for being over utilized. However, I would argue its actual application is being seriously underutilized in our own industry.
As our industry prepares to gather together in Columbus, Ohio, for BCMC 2019, we thought it would be insightful to look back over the past decade at some of component manufacturing’s crowning achievements.
The Story of Rehkemper and Son, Inc.
There was so much information to absorb at this year’s show! And there are more resources online to help you catch up on anything you missed.
At the inaugural summit, 71 participants, including key lumber industry leaders, the top five lumber producers in North America, and component manufacturers representing approximately 700 million board feet of U.S. structural lumber purchases, attended.
There was general agreement by those in attendance that the short-term goal of this group was to prepare for upcoming and anticipated Southern Pine design value changes. The aim was to forego the traditional adjustment process that can take years and is typified by the circular questions of component manufacturers asking, “what grades and sizes can you sell me?” and lumber suppliers replying by asking, “what grades and sizes do you need?”
Focusing on that short-term goal, summit participants discussed creating a series of standard grades or design value ranges that manufacturers could use and lumber producers could readily produce.
A-1 takes a start-from-scratch approach to training new recruits.
What is it, where did it come from, and how is it used?
Wood waste conveyor system saves an hour of labor per day
Anti-Trust Law
Throughout its history, SBCA has complied with the antitrust laws and is not subject to any consent decree, cease and desist order, or any other mandate or prohibition of any agency of government or any court with respect to the antitrust laws.
In order to assure continued compliance with both the letter and the spirit of the antitrust laws, participants in SBCA and the local chapters are reminded of the following important policy:
KA Components’ internship program is a path to a good salary & a place in a unique industry
A decade after it began operation, SBCRI is making a new push for industry-directed testing to benefit all component manufacturers.
Meet SBCA board member Gene Frogale, President of Annandale Millwork and Allied Systems in Chantilly, Virginia.
Remembering the life and times of Bill McAlpine.
A complex roof with multiple arcing panels provided design challenges both before and during construction.
The structural building components industry lost one of its greatest champions, Don Hershey, when he passed away at home last November.
I recently had a conversation with John Holland, head of IT for Clearspan Components, and he pointed out that if there’s one thing the component industry has a lot of, it’s problems