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Educate the Marketplace with New Green Resources
The Structural Building Components Association (SBCA) has announced a new green building initiative that will benefit cold-formed steel and wood component manufacturers supplying products to green-built projects. Several green building rating systems for commercial and residential construction have been developed, resulting in significant confusion surrounding the extent to which structural components are eligible for “green” points.
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At its March Open Quarterly Meeting, SBCA’s Board of Directors voted to develop a roadmap for component manufacturers to better understand how structural components are eligible for points under various green building programs. One of its first tasks is to develop information sheets (for wood in a color format and a black & white format; and for steel in a color format and a black & white format) to be shared with customers or included with truss submittal packages. SBCA is also considering a truss tag to expand this education to building component installers, building officials and green building verifiers. These new resources are designed to help component manufacturers educate their builder customers on how wood and steel building components comply with LEED for Homes, LEED-NC and NAHB ICC-700.
In an article in the March issue of SBC Magazine, LEED Accredited Professional Norm Scheel explains that there are many points available in green building programs that component manufacturers can help builders attain. “Unfortunately, many people in the building community have adopted a distorted view about the use of certified lumber in green buildings,” says Scheel. The fact is, component manufacturers play a significant role in helping builders erect homes that are highly engineered with virtually no waste in the framing process. There are points out there for value engineering, componentized framing and reducing jobsite waste, he says. Visit SBC Magazine website at www.sbcmag.info to log in and read Norm Scheel’s article, “How to Play the Green Building Game.”
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