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SBCA - Arizona (SBCA-AZ)
c/o Bill Blades, Chapter President
Truss Fab, LLC
PO Box 848 • Glendale, AZ 85311-0848
623-215-2738
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2013 Sept/Oct
- The challenges of turnover leave some CMs hesitant about justifying the costs of training programs, such as SBCA’s TTT.
- It’s worth implementing new strategies for retaining employees, such as reconsidering previous policies that may be hurting your company under current conditions. An example includes careful consideration when an employee makes a special request before automatically saying “no.”
- SBCA President Scott Ward calls on CMs to share their thoughts on employee retention; send suggestions to Emily Patterson.
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2013 Sept/Oct
- When a stick of lumber's dressed size is less than the minimum required dressed size, the grading agency includes the size in the grade stamp as required by PS 20.
- Reduced dimensions can result in actual design overstress, unless the actual size is put into the lumber inventory of your software provider’s program.
- It is incumbent on the purchaser to decide whether or not to use specially marked lumber; buyer beware if there is a downstream design issue and the grade stamp was not accounted for in the design.
Article
2013 Sept/Oct
- When the IRC provides a solution that cannot be supported by testing of real buildings in a code-compliant application of braced walls, more accurate and technically correct engineered solutions will never be able to compete.
- There is some resistance in the market to establishing standard factors for product equivalency or system performance because it may result in non-wood products graining an advantage over traditional OSB market share.
- A top testing priority for SBCA is “Framing the American Dream III,” which seeks to test a typical stick framed roof and compare its performance to an identical engineered truss roof.
Article
2013 August
Looking for an economical way to add square footage and an alternative to decreasing spans? Read on!
Article
2013 Sept/Oct
When the new Bell Park Pavilion in Greenwood, AR, needed a roof, Capital Structures provided a solution with these glulam beam trusses.
Article
2013 Sept/Oct
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