- SBCA is not your typical trade association. At its foundation is a focus on developing, sharing and promoting industry best practices.
- SBCA has refrained from participating in a “pay-to-play,” direct-lobbying approach.
- However, on issues ranging from tax reform to housing finance, there are proposals floated by lawmakers that could put many of us out of business very quickly. We have a duty to warn.
- This year, SBC expanded from 24 to 28 pages, thanks to the commitment of our industry’s suppliers who advertise in the magazine.
- Be sure to check out the weekly email newsletter, SBC Industry News, which offers insight into general industry news and trends involving CMs, suppliers and the economy.
- If you find yourself doing something a bit differently, or you complete a project you’re particularly proud of, let SBC staff know so they can share it with the industry.
- We need to focus on our younger employees now and groom them to become the next generation of leaders in our companies and in our industry.
- Just like raising kids, building leaders is accomplished through a million small conversations, learning moments, completed tasks and informal evaluations with feedback.
- There has to be a commitment on your part to ensure the employees you mentor learn everything they can about their jobs and the business.
- The most effective way to avoid recurrent issues with component installation is to give an SBCA Jobsite Package to the general contractor and framing crew on every job.
- Simply having your driver drop the Jobsite Package off with the component package at the jobsite isn’t enough.
- Anytime you work with a GC or an inexperienced crew for the first time, consider visiting with them ahead of delivery and walk them through the information in the jobsite package.
- The National Framers Council (NFC) was formed as a council of SBCA to give framers a national organization that will focus on best practices in jobsite safety and building material installation.
- NFC’s goal is for each framer to leave the jobsite every day in the same health as when they arrived.
- The more framers and CMs interact, the more we will be able to identify framing and component implementation issues in the field and find solutions where both industries win.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Everyone’s looking for good people right now, and SBCA’s WFD website connects CMs with job candidates; CMs can help this effort by posting openings and viewing resumés.
- SBCA’s online training programs show new hires how our industry can become a career, and gives them the skills to quickly integrate and be productive at the plant.
- BCMC and BCMC Build are the perfect ways to recharge and help us build an industry community where new ideas, strategies and friendships can converge.
- CMs need to develop new strategies for hiring, given the tight labor supply to fill the jobs available in the SBC industry.
- There are a wide the range of jobs and great opportunities for advancement in the SBC industry; spread the word.
- SBCA's WorkForce Development site, wfd.sbcindustry.com, could save CMs a tremendous amount of time and money when hiring new employees.
