This year’s hurricane season has been brutal with damage to property and loss of life causing many whose homes have been affected to rethink their rebuilds. As construction professionals, offering raised-wood flooring options could really level up your game.
With more than 200,000 construction jobs already vacant, encouraging woman to join the workforce will help to fill those positions.
Construction professionals with experience may be finding the new home-building landscape challenging. Innovation and sustainability can be achieved with relatively little disruption to the way you build, using those tried and tested methods that you know work.
High wind events place an enormous amount of shear and uplift forces on a building. Now you can easily meet hurricane wind codes, while eliminating or reducingthe hardware expense of hurricane straps and the hassle of cutting
As the cost of home construction and building materials increase in cost, and building codes demand more effective building envelopes, construction professionals are looking to taller wall sheathing to fill in the gaps. Listen to the Builder Insights Podcast.
Curious about if there is there any way Solarbord can be retrofitted between the rafters of an existing roof? Hmmm? Best consult the Ol’ Sage Builder!
Subflooring on a roof? Has the whole world been turned upside down and gone topsy-turvy? Don’t worry folks, let the Ol’ Sage Builder set the record straight on this matter!
The DBA is hosting the Dallas Builder’s Show on October 15 which offers industry professionals a day of insights and opportunities. The DBA Show kicks off with a member’s meeting with special guest speakers Ross Perot Jr. and Dr. Elliot Eisenberg, have a trade show featuring 70 exhibitors and a cocktail reception in the evening will benefit the worthy Operation Finally Home.
As a construction professional, being a good salesman will help you to stay ahead of the curve. If you are good at your job, most of your clients won’t need you again for decades to come. While word of mouth will help to increase your customer base, here are some pro-active tips that will help you to grow your business.
We’ve compiled a list of all the construction abbreviations we use most often as a resource to builders, engineers, framers, dealers, architects and other trades. This list is a work in progress, so if you have any abbreviations we’ve missed, leave them in the comments section and we’ll add them to the list.
