Business Logistics

Know Your Labor Market

If you’re one of the hundreds of component manufacturers (CMs) currently challenged by finding and retaining a large enough skilled workforce to accomplish your business goals, there are no wrong answers to these questions. The only strategy to avoid is making decisions without good information.

Well Worth the Effort

Big C Lumber shared a lot with their guests and learned a lot as hosts. They offer a few tips for CMs looking to hold their own event. 

We Are All in This Together!

How one CM introduces building officials to the entire scope of work that goes into truss manufacturing. 

 

Labor Pains

“All the builders and framers I talk to out there say the same thing: they can’t find enough guys to do what they want to do.” Those are the thoughts of Jason Blenker, president of Blenker Building Systems. If national surveys and media reports are accurate, the sentiment is shared by most of the construction industry across the country.

The Beauty of a Blank Canvas

A-1 takes a start-from-scratch approach to training new recruits.

The Efficiency Edge

Finding the best, fastest, most efficient process has always been part of the culture for this component manufacturer. 

Finding Balance

Design efficiency is critical, but it can’t overshadow design quality.

 

Execute Your Hearing Conservation Program

Three key steps to get you headed down the right path.

Parting Shots

In 2001, WoodWords (later renamed SBC Magazine) began dedicating its June/July issue to a summary of the industry’s concerns and the activities of SBCA’s annual legislative conference. That tradition continued through 2014.

 

We’ve Got Work To Do…

Roughly 60 years after their inception, roof trusses are well-established in the market, a cornerstone of residential framing. Their natural counterpart, floor trusses, are quite possibly the most misunderstood product offered by our industry.