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The 2018 BCMC show runs from October 23-26 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A high-quality component is the result of many individuals’ expertise – including the person standing at the saw.
Lay-On Gables are an opportunity for component manufacturers.
Metal plate connected wood trusses are sometimes used in applications or environments that require the trusses to be designed and constructed with chemically treated lumber. The two most common types of chemically treated wood used in trusses are preservative treated wood (PTW) and fire retardant treated wood (FRTW).
Quality marks are not substitutes for grade marks—FRTW will include both!
Rebuilding a historic church after a ruinous fire was a project not to be forgotten.
Ed Callahan, Jr. passed away on January 20, 2013, one day shy of his 80th birthday.
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.
SBCA has compiled the articles below to provide a comprehensive guide to the information it has published on R501.3 (from the 2012 IRC) and R302.12 (the same language incorporated in the 2015 IRC). The goal in organizing the information in this way is to enable the reader to fully understand this issue and SBCA’s position.
Question: Why was the IRC changed to provide a 2x10 exclusion from the requirement in R501.3/R302.13 that states, “Floor assemblies….shall be provided with a 1/2-inch (12.7 mm) gypsum wallboard membrane”?
At the recent July SBCA Open Quarterly Meeting (OQM) in Madison, WI, the membership discussed the importance of raw material design values and their impact on component manufacturers (CM).
The capacity of a ribbon board and its system through the composite of the ribbon board, floor sheathing and bottom plate of the wall has not been ascertained. In order to provide better guidance, a series of tests were conducted in order to determine the capacity of the ribbon board system.
Investing in continuing education can be a powerful way to communicate to your existing employees their value to your organization, as well as improve their existing skills.
- Personnel and safety issues are central to your business strategy and can have a significant impact on the success or failure of your business.
- In this issue, we explore alternative work force development strategies.
- SBC readers’ top five safety concerns are revealed on page 52 of this issue.
- The final installment of the Transporting Trusses series spotlights load securement.
- Positions in the Stark program at Marion Correctional Institute (MCI) are coveted among inmates.
- Inmates that participate in the program are promised the opportunity of a fresh start after they get out of prison.
- Stark leadership believes that the program addresses a chronic shortage of truss technicians in the industry while providing felons a chance to learn a valuable skill to apply as they reintegrate into society after their release.
- Wood allowable stress design, used extensively by the truss industry, does note change significantly in the 2005 NDS.
- One of the key features of the 2005 NDS is the work done to make the NDS more consistent in terminology and clarify sections that have been known to be confusing in the past.
- The 2005 NDS has very minimal impact on allowable stress design and has the added benefit of having a transparent approach to learning and using load and resistance factor design.
- Positions in the Stark program at Marion Correctional Institute (MCI) are coveted among inmates.
- Inmates that participate in the program are promised the opportunity of a fresh start after they get out of prison.
- Stark leadership believes that the program addresses a chronic shortage of truss technicians in the industry while providing felons a chance to learn a valuable skill to apply as they reintegrate into society after their release.
- WTCA is currently experiencing a major growth spurt, the third of its kind.
- There are many reasons for the recent growth: increased membership, online training programs, new publications like BCSI 1-03, BCMC and SBC Magazine.
- Based on this surge in growth, the Board of Directors has approved the following: staff attendance at chapter meetings at least once per quarter and the development of a full-scale research and truss testing program.
- Inventor Cal Jureit created a prototype of the Gang-Nail metal connector plate fifty years ago.
- Jureit’s plate had metal teeth, eliminating the need for materials like nails, bolts or glue to be used in wood truss manufacturing.
- Jureit’s company Gang-Nails, Inc. be-came Automated Building Components, Inc. in 1961, and is now MiTek, Inc.
- Our cover story features another WTCA member who volunteered on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
- This issue focuses on quality control and In-Plant WTCA QC.
- A new Truss Technology Workshop (TTW) web site has been rolled out, making continuing education and general knowledge about the building components industry easily accessible for professionals.
- This issue features new WTCA President Don Groom’s first Editor’s Message.
- The approach that has been taken by the truss industry to comply with the building code requirements for the last fifty years still applies today.
- Special inspections may be required for a given constriction project.
- The International Accreditation Service (IAS) has developed an accreditation program for agencies providing the special inspections that are required for specific construction projects under Chapter 17 of IBC.
- The third party inspection agencies in our industry have IAS accreditation.
- A new design check, initially termed “chunk-out,” appeared in the truss design process with the adoption of TPI 1-2002.
- The appropriate technical term for chunk-out is actually “shear-out.”
- Understanding shear-out requires defining the stress distribution around the plate and comparing the magnitude of stresses to the wood shear strength under the plate.
- Future finite element stress analysis and testing has been planned in order to define the nominal stresses associated with the shear-out condition.
- SNCMA joined forced with the Struc-tural Engineers Association of Southern Nevada (SEASoN) by forming a truss committee within the engineers’ group.
- Using teamwork, the two groups successfully resolved issues surrounding drag loads and uplift.
- Most recently, SNCMA and WTCA staff provided content for SEASoN’s design responsibilities document based on language in WTCA/TPI 1 Chapter 2.
- This issue of SBC Magazine features articles about legal and legislative topics.
- The Sixth Annual WTCA Legislative Conference took place in Washington, DC on May 10-12.
- Some of this issue’s other features include: how to prepare yourself and your company for a buy-out, why you should think twice about selling product through a truss broker and a victory surrounding a building labeling issue.
- Builders, contractors and lumberyards who buy components are not best served when the component design and manufacturing is undertaken by more than one company.
- "Truss brokers" sell components to build-ers, contractors, and/or lumberyards but maintain no manufacturing facility. They either carry out component design and placement or hire it out to third parties.
- Component manufacturers’ liability risk grows exponentially if they manufacture to designs created by others.
- This issue of SBC Magazine features articles about legal and legislative topics.
- The Sixth Annual WTCA Legislative Conference took place in Washington, DC on May 10-12.
- Some of this issue’s other features include: how to prepare yourself and your company for a buy-out, why you should think twice about selling product through a truss broker and a victory surrounding a building labeling issue.
- Material flow is the path and process that material and paperwork travel through your operations in order to produce a finished product.
- You may find that the new computerized saw can save time cutting pieces, but you aren’t rolling trusses out the door any faster.
- Your next challenge is to put them into action by documenting your operation’s material flow.
- A big part of personnel management is learning how to deal with all different personalities—even the difficult ones.
- Find out how Northeast Panel & Truss teamed up with OSHA to improve their safety record.
- Learn about automated saws that are designed with your safety in mind.
- Read about a charter high school in Ohio that rehabilitates troubled teens by teaching them how to design and build components.
- Almost without exception, each of these automated devices or improvements have been designed to make the truss or wall building process more convenient, faster, more productive, more accurate, of better quality, and less costly.
- One of the virtues of automated saws is their ability to set themselves up without intervention by the operator.
- Is your insurance provider aware of the improved safety that certain types of automation brings to your plant? If he isn’t, you should be leaning on him to give you a break! It could be significant.