Features

Featured Articles from past issues of SBC Magazine.

Sealed Code Compliance Reports: A Law-Abiding, Streamlined Alternative

When it comes to code compliance for your new product, consider a road less traveled that can be much quicker and more robust than the traditional path.

Going Beyond Green: Net-Zero Pushes the (Building) Envelope

Beyond super-sized energy efficiency, there are many other benefits to net-zero homes.

The Blooming of Green Homes: An Opportunity Ripe for the Picking

By 2016, one out of every three builders anticipate they will be dedicated to green building work on over 90 percent of residential projects, up from 17 percent in 2011.The increase in “green” home building provides an opportunity for component manufacturers to work with builders to arrive at a win-win scenario. 

Ramping It Up...Things to Consider Entering a Better Market

Spend a few minutes with the thoughts of CMs doing business in markets where business is picking up and make sure your company is ready for recovery when it comes.

The Quiet Hero: Remembering Don Hershey

The structural building components industry lost one of its greatest champions, Don Hershey, when he passed away at home last November.

Assembling a Roof, from the Ground Up

How do you build a house?

Corralling Your SOW

  • Not stating a SOW can also subject a CM to the prospect of increased claims and liability. 
  • A manufacturer should strongly consider developing a SOW template that can be used in its bids or proposals and as an addendum or attachment to the customer contracts it signs.

A Project of Epic Proportions

30,000 leagues under the sea? Depth of monster squid. 30,000 miles per hour? Speed of a meteorite. 30,000 pounds? Weight of a new U.S.bunker-busting bomb. 30,000 square feet? Size of a single-family home framed by Blenker Building Systems in central Wisconsin.

If You Measure It, They Will Come

BCMC Sessions Focus on Doing Business Smarter

A Not So Tall Tale

The story of how one Michigan truss plant is on track to realizing that elusive happily ever after.