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- My heart, as always, was to serve our members and SBCA staff to the best of my ability.
- Support SBCA with your membership, your donations, your time, and your love and passion for our industry.
- I’m turning this over to one of my great friends and mentors—a man who I have so much respect and admiration for, Mr. Rick Parrino.
It is an understatement to say a lot has happened over the past decade in our industry. In 2004, we were Revvin’ Up the Components Industry with a little over 1.9 million housing starts (see above right). Little did anyone know, the housing market would top out at 2.1 million housing starts the very next year. When BCMC returned to Charlotte in 2010 (see above left), housing starts had spent their second year under an unimaginably low total of 600,000. This year, we return to Charlotte, Standing Strong and Gearing Up for Growth, experiencing our first year over one million starts since 2007. Will we see you in our photos of BCMC 2014?
In 2015, SBC Magazine will embark on an ambitious project. In each of its nine issues, we will begin to record the history of the components industry through the eyes of several of its early pioneers.
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- The whole premise of NFC is to help the framing industry grow and develop through best practice-based standards.
- Having a more standardized approach to framing will make the whole building construction process easier.
- I believe every component manufacturer should get involved in NFC, become a member of this fledgling organization, and help support its mission and objectives.
- The following Technical Q&A has been updated from the version that appeared in the 2006 June/July issue of SBC.
- Lateral restraints are installed to reduce the buckling length of the web(s), but must be restrained laterally to prevent the webs to which they are attached from buckling together in the same direction.
- BCSI-B3, Permanent Restraint/Bracing of Chords and Web Members, provides general industry recommendations and methods for restraining web members against buckling.