How to Hire and Build High-Performing Teams

Implementing employee evaluations effectively can improve collaboration.

The Journey from Making Trusses to Making Laws

A CM turned state lawmaker uses business experience to help others.

How We Build Our House

Core values live at the heart of Littfin Lumber’s ongoing success.

You Can’t Miss with a Near Miss Hotline

Clearspan Components improves safety and also collects leading indicators.

Don’t Immediately Offer to Repair!

Partition separation is not typically caused by truss uplift.

President's Message: The Rubber Has Hit the Road

SBCA members have begun the process of fleshing out the new strategic plan.

Editor's Message: Which Department Is Your Customer’s Final Point of Contact?

A recent poll looked at this aspect of CM’s overall customer service.

CM Perspective: Opportunities to Share Ideas Are Key Value of SBCA Involvement

If you haven’t watched an SBCA webinar recently, you are missing out. You’d be surprised how much you can learn from other component manufacturers not in your market.

Parting Shots: The Truss Champions

Over the past 35 years, The Truss Company has quietly grown into one of the largest component manufacturing operations on the West Coast.

Faces of the Industry: JoAnn Gidley

My grandfather was a general contractor, and my mother is one, too. I was toted around jobsites from a young age, and today the smell of fresh cut lumber and construction dust still brings me back to the good ol’ days.