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Ryan Hikel and Jason Valis know they have a good thing going. Shelter Systems is great at making roof and floor trusses. Bruce Jones Contracting is awesome at making wall panels and framing buildings. Together, their companies have learned how to leverage the expertise of the other and offer a collective solution to GCs in their market. In this episode, Hikel and Valis talk about their value proposition.
In this episode, we rejoin Dean Rana and Michael Miller who provide more insight into how they have convinced framers to move from sticks to panels. They discuss the evolving needs of framers and builders and how they have altered their wall panel business to keep up. Dean and Michael also talk about characteristics of framers who succeed using wall panels versus those that don’t, and share how they're approaching young framing contractors.
Dean Rana and Michael Miller have taken on the tough challenge of selling wall panel systems to Arizona framing contractors. In this episode, Rana and Miller give some insight into how they have convinced framers to move from sticks to panels and explain the value proposition they sell to the market. They also speak to how wall panels excel in a time when building material costs are rising.
Steve Stroder and Shawn Overholtzer share how California TrusFrame (CTF) is partnering with their plate supplier and a framing contractor to solve the growing challenge of shear walls in large, wood-framed buildings. Steve and Shawn explain how partnering with MiTek to incorporate their cold-formed steel picture frame product into CTF’s wall panel line has proved to be a win-win solution for field installation. They argue that component manufacturers should take greater advantage of supplier products to design and manufacture even more valuable framing solutions.
A CM, a framer, and a supplier collaborate to significantly innovate shear walls.
Learn how one seasoned framer/CM team was primed to shine on a project like this.
CMs and framers win and lose together – the NFC ensures everyone wins.
A builder’s perspective on how CMs can grow market share
A company is acquired for its earnings, but valued for its EBITDA percentage.
I’m honored to serve as SBCA’s new executive director.
JL Schwieters was started in 1980 by my dad, John Schwieters, and his brother, Leo, as a framing labor business.
SBCA’s Cold-Formed Steel Council (CFSC) provides supporting documentation relating to Cold-formed steel (CFS) truss quality control.
SBCA is involved with “In-plant Quality Control” programs to fulfill its mission of members gaining the knowledge and power to run successful, growing, profitable companies offering a compelling competitive advantage in the marketplace for their customers and professional growth for employees.
In late 2019, SBCA’s Executive Committee launched a strategic planning process that began with a survey of component manufacturers (CMs) that garnered a significant response.
SBCA’s partnership with Tim helps educate his followers on the benefits of structural components.
SBCA strategic planning process yields great results.
Learn how component manufacturers offer the most efficient structural framing solutions and how they've made a difference in communities across the country, allowing for the most effective use of time, labor and materials to frame all types of structures. Roof trusses, floor trusses and wall panels play an integral part in the structures you see every day.
Ask the Builder expert, Tim Carter, communicates how components expedite the building process and highlights the many reasons to build with wall panels. In the video Tim explains that wall panels have been around since the 1940's but are now built using cutting-edge technology in an automated production facility. He also shares that wall panels are easy to install which allows for fewer workers with expert carpentry skills and that can save you money. Tim points out that wall panels speed up the building process, allowing the building to be dried in sooner and ensuring construction materials are more quickly protected from the impact of rain and snow.
It’s about knowing your customers’ pain points and solving them.
NFC members weigh in during wall panel roundtable
Training Programs
SBCA offers a variety of safety and training programs that are industry-specific to help component manufacturers train employees.
Advocacy
With a mission to protect and advance the interests of our members, SBCA is the voice of the structural building components industry to legislative, regulatory and standards-generating agencies. SBCA formulates policies concerning the operations of component manufacturers.
This past year, the Emerging Leaders Committee held two leadership training sessions in conjunction with SBCA’s Open Quarterly Meetings (OQM).
I got into the industry by starting out in retail lumber with Wickes. They had a yard near my house and in high school I cleaned the facility and stocked the shelves.
CMs are having success hiring more women in the shop
Global markets, technical expansion and industry growth all contribute to making SBCA a leading force in further development of the structural building component industry—now and in the future!