SBC Industry News

When using steel, the savings made from reduced on-site labor and waste brings a greater cost-efficiency to the overall project. Here’s five projects from Melbourne, Australia, using SBS Group cold formed steel solutions to replace wood framed structures:

How exactly does OSHA work? Is the government really out to get every company and to cite every workplace safety violation? What happens when an OSHA inspector shows up at your door? And can you actually beat an OSHA citation?

The internet doesn’t carry goods, only more and more orders for them. Self-driving trucks are a long way off. In the meantime, somebody has to haul freight and make deliveries.

Raney Construction Inc., run by bootstraps offsite innovator Buddy Raney, will serve as "vertically-integrated total solution" on 3,500 homes, on track to factory-produce 1.1 million board feet of roof trusses, flooring, and wall panels, a 20% increase in business activity over 2017 totals.

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) continues to capture the attention of the building engineering community.

It’s highly unlikely you will ever be called upon to build a hexadecagon (16 sided) barn, but any builder can appreciate the work accomplished by Silas Treadway, a timber framer from South Stafford, Vermont, especially when it comes to the elaborate truss design.

Kenny Cloyd, founder of Cal Truss (which merged and became California TrusFrame (CTF)) and a fierce advocate for component innovation, passed away on June 26 after a battle with cancer.

Although builders are slowly catching up with demand, they continue to lag behind, yet are making record profits. Presumably component manufacturers should be too.

Hammond Lumber Company (Hammond) announced today that it has acquired EBS Building Supplies (EBS), a Maine-based lumber and building materials (LBM) dealer, and their 10 coastal locations.

In the video below, homebuilder Matt Risinger gives his take on BMC’s Ready Frame product and walks the viewer through a tour of their manufacturing facility.

We are sad to report the component manufacturing industry lost two of its early pioneers this week, Kenny Cloyd (1953-2018) and Sherman Nelson (1934-2018).

There is good news for U.S. manufacturers coming from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). NLRB Chairman John Ring authored a letter indicated the board would conduct notice-and-comment rulemaking to establish a new joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

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Blueprint Robotics in Baltimore is targeting the custom home market and promises delivery of frames and walls fabricated offsite with insulation installed and plumbing and electrical roughed in.

The additions of MGA and LAS, a studio founded in 1989 that offers a full suite of landscape architecture, interior design, architecture, and urban planning services with an emphasis on sustainability, has doubled Katerra’s design staff.

This metal-roofed, timber-clad building takes its cues from the 39-acre site, a former farmstead complete with a red barn and grain silo, and from agrarian vernacular architecture, characterized by features such as gabled roofs, exposed timber structures, and open interiors.

A new report from the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation, Vertical Market Outlook Series – Construction, said the near-term residential and commercial construction markets should continue to grow.

There is literally no place, function or operation that could not benefit from lean enterprise. Research indicates there may be an undiscovered opportunity to apply lean principles to the holistic cleaning of a manufacturing environment.

Congress took a positive step towards life safety and added a passage of inclusion of fire sprinkler provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. According to the American Fire Sprinkler Association, fire sprinkler contractors are poised to benefit from several aspects of this monumental legislation.

Are you using the right compression posts for your project? Are you picking compression posts for your multi-level wood-frame project using a catalog? You’re not alone