Lumber

Do Your Installers Understand “Stress-Graded” Lumber?

Clear up an occasional source of confusion regarding BCSI bracing

Seeing the Forest for the Lumber

The recent direction in federal lands timber harvest policy is encouraging for the industry

Checklists for Mitigating and Remediating Mold on Wood Structural Building Components

The following checklists are to be used as a practical guide in conjunction with the information on mold provided in SBCA Research Report 1807-01: “Mold on Structural Building Components.”

Mold on Wood Structural Building Components

This research report seeks to provides fact-based information about causes, effects, and mitigation of mold growth on lumber and wood structural building components. 

Editor's Message: Bottlenecks

Most of the conversations I’ve had with component manufacturers (CMs) about increasing production efficiency inevitably focus on one thing: bottlenecks.

President's Message: We’re a Passionate Bunch

I was recently sitting in an SBCA meeting and a fellow component manufacturer (CM) on the board spoke passionately about how important it was for all CMs to promote the benefits of component framing over stick framing. The way he talked, if I didn’t know him, I would have guessed he ran a plant in Texas or Mississippi and was constantly having to fight for market share against stick framers. In actuality, he operates in Florida. Stick framing doesn’t even affect him.

How Do High Lumber Costs Affect Margins?

February 26, 2018

A recent series of articles leave a reader wondering, “what are the true impact of higher lumbers costs are on the ultimate price of a house?”

Duties Harm U.S. Lumber Buyer Businesses, Not Canadian Producers

February 26, 2018

It is currently estimated that over $1.2 billion in duties on softwood lumber imported from Canada will be collected in 2018.

Is Canadian Ownership of U.S. Mills Having an Impact?

February 26, 2018

When evaluating today’s North American softwood lumber markets, it’s important to keep the relatively recent shift (since 2015) in the controlling ownership of U.S. mills, particularly in the southern yellow pine region.

Bottom Chord Live Load Concurrency and Truss Design - Educational Program

This presentation seeks to explain how to correctly apply live loads to the bottom chord of trusses for uninhabitable attics in accordance with IRC Table R301.5 and IBC Table 1607.1 and ASCE 7-10 Table 4-1.