Industry News
BMC Stock Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of diversified building products, services and innovative building solutions in the U.S. residential construction market, hosted the 2020 BMC National Event, a biennial five-day conference featuring an expansive tradeshow and expert-led education offerings, from January 13-16 at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a preliminary ruling last week that the combined anti-dumping and countervailing duties on all Canadian softwood lumber could fall to an average 8.21 percent from 20.23 percent.
Rhonda Leppert of Annandale Millwork and Allied Systems Corporation was selected as the recipient for the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association (NVBIA) Women in the Building Industry 2019 award.
Cost and availability of labor topped the list of problems builders faced in 2019, and is expected to return to the number one spot in 2020, according to special questions on the December survey for the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.
U.S. home builders started an estimated 1.289 million homes in 2019, according to preliminary U.S. Census data, over 300,000 more than the 1.25 million in 2018.
Sunpro, a building materials supplier serving Utah and Idaho, announced the asset acquisition of the Nampa-based hardware and supplies store, Stone Lumber.
“My love for this industry developed early on and I am excited to see where it goes,” Jazmine Murillo stated in her application for a 2020 SBCA Emerging Leaders Scholarship.
2019 SBCA President, Greg Griggs of Builders FirstSource, sat down with incoming 2020 SBCA President, Mike Ruede, of A-1 Roof Truss, during BCMC 2019 in Columbus, Ohio.
It’s not news that the lack of skilled labor in the construction industry today is causing a variety of problems ripe for new solutions.
