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PFMI Update: Educate your post-frame customers!

Let the Post-Frame Advantage website work for you  / By John Ryan, NFBA Director, Market Development  / Have you visited the website postframeadvantage.com lately? It’s worth a visit, a bookmark and a link from your company site. Here are some … Read more »

Posted in Frame Building News, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Post Frame News | Tagged nfba, Post-Frame Advantage, post-frame building | Leave a comment

Safety Update: Fall protection and heat stress

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recently addressed two significant safety and health issues of great importance to post-frame contractors: fall protection and heat stress. Fall protectionAn effective discussion of how fall-protection requirements affect the post-frame contractor cannot begin … Read more »

Posted in Construction Industry News, Frame Building News, Industry Experts, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Rural Builder Magazine | Tagged fall protection, heat stress, nfba, OSHA | Leave a comment

Energy Panel Structures completes purchase of Fingerlakes Construction

Fingerlakes Construction Company Inc. of Clyde, N.Y., has been sold to Energy Panel Structures Inc. of Graettinger, Iowa. The Fingerlakes manufacturing division and personnel will remain in Clyde with plans to add the broad line of EPS products to enhance … Read more »

Posted in Energy Efficiency, Frame Building News, Green Building, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Rural Builder Magazine, SIPs/ICFs, Supplier News | Tagged Energy Panel Structures, fingerlakes construction, nfba, sips | Leave a comment

Frame Building Expo ’13: Success strategies in changing times

If you’re looking for nuggets of advice on how to expand and improve your business, Randy Goruk of LeadersEdge 360 has plenty. He shared five main success strategies, sprinkled with more than a dozen tips for achieving those goals, during … Read more »

Posted in Business and Management, Events, FN April 2013, Frame Building Expo, Frame Building News, In the Industry, Industry Experts, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame | Tagged frame building expo, Memphis, nfba, Randy Goruk | Leave a comment

Meet the 2013 Frame Building Expo sponsors

The following companies are sponsors of the 2013 Frame Building Expo. Visit them at the show Feb. 20-22 in Memphis. PLATINUMPlyco Corporation (Booth #400) 

” For over 50 years Plyco has been a leading supplier of products to the post-frame, … Read more »

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Frame Building Expo 2013: Advancing business

The NFBA Board of Directors and staff hope that everyone had a safe and joyous holiday season. If you haven’t done so already, now is the time to make plans to attend NFBA’s 2013 Frame Building Expo and start the … Read more »

Posted in Construction Industry News, Events, FN January 2013, Frame Building Expo, Frame Building News, Rural Builder Magazine | Tagged frame building expo, Larry Edema, nfba | Leave a comment

PFMI Update: Significant impact (January 2013)

NFBA’s Post-Frame Market Initiative employs a number of metrics throughout the year to measure the size and market share of the post-frame industry, identify key trends and drivers, gauge perceptions and awareness of post frame in the design community and … Read more »

Posted in Construction Industry News, FN January 2013, Frame Building News, Rural Builder Magazine | Tagged Lead-Conversion Survey, nfba, PFMI | Leave a comment

NFBA Building of the Year contest deadline is Dec. 3

Enter your favorite post-frame building in the distinguished Building of the Year (BOY) contest. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get your best project noticed! Any building erected by an NFBA member builder in 2012 that uses post-frame construction … Read more »

Posted in Buildings of the Year, Construction Industry News, Events, Frame Building Expo, Frame Building News, In the Industry, Industry Honors, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame | Tagged building of the year, nfba | Leave a comment

Spotlight on benefits of NFBA membership

The National Frame Building Association is always adding benefits for its members, through technical or legal support, networking at its trade show (Frame Building Expo) and offers through its website. Below are a few more benefits of NFBA membership. Business … Read more »

Posted in FN November 2012, Frame Building News, Post Frame News | Tagged nfba, NFMA membership | Leave a comment

Safety Update: Effective safety training, Part 2

(Part 1 can be accessed by clicking here. ) / Emphasis should be placed on issues relevant to your business / By Gary Auman  Legal counsel for NFBA In January 2012, I wrote a Frame Building News article on effective … Read more »

Posted in FN November 2012, Frame Building News, Post-Frame Technique | Tagged nfba, OSHA, safety | Leave a comment