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BCMC session evaluations indicated that the BCMC Committee hit a home run in choosing the topics they did. Take a few moments to catch up on what you might have missed at this year's show.
BCMC attendees brought their athletic skills to the BCMC show in San Antonio.
- When analyzing a girder truss, the Truss Designer needs to keep in mind the assumptions the truss analysis program makes regarding reaction capacities.
- It is the Building Designer’s responsibility to verify the capacity of the bearing surface, but the Truss Designer must ensure that the truss-to-bearing connection has a chance of being made without crushing.
- The article provides a series of concepts to use if a truss needs to be designed without knowing the bearing surface type and its feasibility of providing adequate support for the trusses.
- The truss industry’s innovative products and software form the link between new science-based discoveries and their application.
- The mission of any professional engineering endeavor is to deploy innovative materials, designs or methods of construction that meet or exceed all regulations, protect the consumer and preserve free and unfettered competition as the rule of trade.
- A renewed sense of optimism was everywhere you looked on the BCMC show floor.
- For the first time in six years, BCMC was exciting, encouraging and fun! Everyone was smiling.
- The CM Roundtable is where the issues that will define our industry going forward are raised and hashed out. The next CM Roundtable is in Tucson. I guarantee it is worth the investment to attend.
Learn more about the National Framers Council (NFC), Cold-Formed Steel Council (CFSC), Truss Industry Business Council (TIBC) and the Equipment Council.
The National Framers Council will develop standards for framing field operations and management to be used as industry best practices, nationally.
In looking to the future, the SBC Industry Testing Task Group has identified the following areas to consider for the development of test plans:
Repair Types & Methods
Specifically, what are the true capacities or effects of holes in truss members; scabs including nails, screws and nails or screws with glue; gussets (single and double shear) with nails (clinched and non-clinched), screws and nails or screws with glue.
Ply-to-Ply Girder Connections
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- A good place to start a training program is by covering basic truss industry terminology, along with your company’s terminology and approach to serving customers’ technical needs.
- Example math and complete truss design problems using sample plans are a good way to coach new designers and bring them up to speed with your business practices.
- Each new hire and, in general, all staff needs to know who is responsible for client communication at each stage of a project.
- The SBC Research Institute (SBCRI) acts as our industry’s “flux capacitor” and will transport us to a brave new world of construction we haven’t seen before.
- The future is now and our industry only has two choices—we can each grasp at it individually, or we can hold onto it firmly through a collective effort.
- One of the best places to get active in SBCA is by attending a component manufacturer’s-only roundtable discussion at a SBCA Open Quarterly Meeting (OQM).
- Innovation brings change that builds vigor and excitement in an organization or industry.
- We should challenge ourselves to look for ways to innovate and foster the discomfort of change.
- I am a proud supporter of the innovation revolution taking place within the SBC industry, and I invite you to join me as an advocate for change.
Established in 1983, the Structural Building Components Association (SBCA) is the only international trade association representing manufacturers of structural building components. Its membership also includes truss plate suppliers, original equipment manufacturers and resellers, computer software companies, lumber suppliers, builders and professional individuals in the fields of engineering, marketing and management.
View our current SBCA staff and reach out to them directly by phone or email. You may also select from a list of topics to send a request to staff.
Anti-Trust Law
Throughout its history, SBCA has complied with the antitrust laws and is not subject to any consent decree, cease and desist order, or any other mandate or prohibition of any agency of government or any court with respect to the antitrust laws.
In order to assure continued compliance with both the letter and the spirit of the antitrust laws, participants in SBCA and the local chapters are reminded of the following important policy:
One type of connection used in the manufacture of wood structural building components is the glued finger-joint. The relative newness of structural building components, and of the finger-joints which are used in them, has raised questions about their performance from the perspective of fire safety. This page provides documents and resources which address these questions.
Noise control is a common concern for homeowners and construction industry professionals alike. Similar to fire, sound follows the path of least resistance, and proper installation plays a significant role in the effectiveness of an assembly's sound transmission rating and/or fire endurance ratings. The following resources provide more information on fire rated and sound transmission assemblies.
Step-By-Step Process for Fall Protection & Trusses
Alternate Fall Protection Plan Template
Below are the draft submissions by SBC Magazine Gold Advertisers for the BCMC SBC Extra email to our subscribers. Please review and, if you decide you would like to, send your revised final submissions by next Wednesday, September 25 by 3:00 pm CST. Please contact Sean if you have any questions.
Don't miss all that this year's show has to offer in San Antonio!
When the new Bell Park Pavilion in Greenwood, AR, needed a roof, Capital Structures provided a solution with these glulam beam trusses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.