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The Structural Building Component Industry is regulated by a wide range of local, state, and federal agencies and departments. These organizations create rules, set standards, and enforce them on a daily basis; all of which play a significant role in the day-to-day operations of a truss plant. As they develop rules and standards, component manufacturers have the ability to voice them support or concerns for the proposals before they are implemented.
Reaching out to your elected officials has never been easier. One of the most powerful ways to build a relationship with the most connected individuals in your community is to invite them to take a tour of your manufacturing facility.
SBCA has alliances with a select group of insurance brokers who focus on providing the following coverage to component manufacturers (CMs): commercial property, commercial general liability, automobile liability, excess/umbrella coverage, and workers’ compensation. Many of these brokers offer other insurance products and coverages to CMs as well.
SBCA provides an Approved Broker Program to a select group of insurance brokers who have expertise in providing insurance to companies that manufacture structural building components (trusses, wall panels and related components). If you are a broker interested in being part of this program, please review the program requirements.
Following BCMC 2018, TPI announced it would undertake an initiative to address the interoperability of component manufacturing software and machinery CMs use to manufacture components based on the progress of SBCA’s IT Committee.
Read more about membership with the Structural Building Components Association (SBCA) and determine membership dues.
SBCA makes these Structural Details available to architects, engineers, contractors, designers, code enforcement officials and others involved in construction applications using metal plate connected wood trusses (MPCWT). SBCA hopes that these details will be of value, save time in the design process, and educate those in the proper application of MPCWT.
A Joint QC Detail, illustrating the positioning tolerance, shall be obtained for any joint selected for inspection, except as permitted in Section 3.7.2.2.
Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) are part of the public workforce system under the U.S. Department of Labor. The system is a network of federal, state, and local offices that function to support economic expansion and develop the talent of our nation’s workforce. The public workforce system works in partnership with employers, educators, and community leaders to foster economic development and high-growth opportunities in regional economies in order to meet the challenge of the 21st century global economy. This system exists to help businesses find qualified workers to meet their present and future workforce needs.
The SBCA Marketing Committee embarked on an ambitious new effort to map the entire construction industry process through a series of flow charts.
Federal and state agency resources you can use to enhance business development and strengthen your workforce.
Gear up for growth! Use the job descriptions listed to post open full-time, part-time or internship positions under Manage Career Opportunities.
This new webinar series was designed to provide suppliers to the structural building components industry with a platform to give a 30-minute webinar on a topic you think will be most beneficial to CMs as they navigate current industry challenges and opportunities. These are not intended to be a sales pitch for your products or services but rather should focus on new/emerging technologies or marketplace trends.
SBCA has published extensive information regarding raw material performance characteristics, since 2009, when SBCRI first learned of the disparities between OSB and lumber published design values and SBCRI tested performance. We published a 2015 article entitled “ Why is SBCA & SBCRI Publishing Investigative Reports? ”
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Component manufacturers continue to struggle finding an abundant source of potential employees. It’s never too early to introduce aspiring minds to new career opportunities while fostering a relationship with a local instructors who may be your companies’ most valuable recruiter.
Elected officials are well connected individuals in your community and can prove to be an invaluable resource. They have the ability to directly influence laws that may impact the use of your product, or they can provide a communications channel for seeking recourse in the event your company is penalized or has difficulty securing permitting.
Having a close relationship with framers is crucial given that they are responsible for installing your product. The importance can never be overstated, the more they understand how your products are designed and manufactured, and why it’s important to handle and brace your products properly, can go a long way towards ensuring continued market share growth.
Benefits of building a relationship with Fire officials allows you to provide comprehensive information on the true fire performance of metal connected wood products. Since the invention of structural components there have been misperceptions and misinformation spread widely about what happens to components during a fire event. As a consequence, many times the fire service and component manufacturing industry have been at odds, but it doesn’t have to be so.
Architects, engineers and specifiers play an important role in deciding how buildings are built. The more that Component Manufacturers can educate these building professional on the structural and design advantages components provide to a structure opens many opportunities, particularly for market share growth.
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Relationships with building officials in your community can pay significant dividends if officials understand how trusses are designed, built, and installed, they can more easily provide feedback to the builder in the field on proper installation of your products. They are also tasked with determining the building code, and enforcing it, so developing a good relationship can help ensure the building code remains friendly to structural building components.
One of the most effective ways to develop a reliable customer base is to help builders and general contractors understand the benefits your products provide over the alternative. Bringing them into your plant gives them the opportunity to see your high quality products carefully built in a controlled environment, cementing in their mind why they should choose you over stick framing or another manufacturer.
The largest hurdle to hosting a plant tour is having enough time. That's why we continue to create tools like those below to make it as easy as possible to host a tour.
The primary motivation to hosting a plant tour is to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with a supplier, potential customer, a city official, and many others in your community.
Key changes are taking place within the truss and wall panel manufacturing community.
This program helps manufacturers monitor the quality of the wall panels they manufacture and provides the plant with a data management system.
SBCA generates a large volume of timely, applicable information to its members and the industry at large on a wide variety of topics. Recognizing it can sometimes be difficult to locate a specific resource among this volume of content, we’ve created a topical library on the most prevalent subjects of interest to component manufacturers today. This topical library pulls together the most relevant articles, news items, best practices and other online resources on each topic.
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SBCA offers free online education almost every Tuesday at 1 pm Central. Grab your lunch, snag a friend, and join us for professional development opportunities on a wide range of topics. From technical and legal issues to design and production best practices, there’s a webinar for everyone. Visit the REGISTER links below for more details on each session and to sign up to attend. If you miss a session, it's easy to catch up with the WATCH NOW links below - simply register to watch a past webinar on demand.