Tag Archives: post-frame

Virginia Tech researcher supports campaign to reduce construction falls

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Jim Austin

Falls in construction represent 14 percent of the fatalities on the job and are estimated to cost construction firms approximately $27,000 in direct costs per incident.  Daniel Hindman, Virginia Tech associate professor of wood engineering in the College of Natural … Read more »

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A post-frame success story in Canada

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Sharon Thatcher

If you’ve recently attended a Frame Building Expo, you know there are devoted fans of post-frame in Canada. You meet them at the Expo. The Calgary Herald has published an article about two post-frame guys - Al Williams and Jerry Myer … Read more »

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Shallow post and pier foundation design: Major revision of standard completed

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Jim Austin

By David Bohnhoff, Ph.D., P.E.  /  In October 2012 the latest version of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ engineering practice (EP) for the design of shallow post foundations was approved by ANSI. The official designation of this … Read more »

Posted in FN April 2013, Frame Building News, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Post-Frame Technique, Research and Technology | Tagged post-frame, Research & Technology, shallow post and pier foundation | Leave a comment

Natural ventilation for horse barns

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Jim Austin
Frame Building News November 2012

Recommendations to keep horses and customers happy / Proper horse barn ventilation can be difficult to wrap your head around. What’s good for you is not necessarily good for horses. Here are some recommendations for natural ventilation in your horse … Read more »

Posted in Featured Magazine, FN November 2012, Frame Building News, Horse Barn Builder, Horse Barn Products, Horse Barns, Low Rise Construction, Products | Tagged horse barn natural ventilation, horse barns, post-frame | Leave a comment

Tool Talk: There’s gotta’ be a better way

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Sharon Thatcher

by Sharon Thatcher – Post-frame builder found a better way for setting posts and is now marketing his own invention If you’ve spent any time at all in the construction industry, you’ve likely said to yourself about one task or … Read more »

Posted in Frame Building News, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Post Frame Products, Post-Frame Technique, Products, RB September 2012, Rural Builder Magazine, Supplier News | Tagged hm tools, Mark Hochstetler, perma columns, post-frame, postsetter | Leave a comment

Post-frame phenom for fungi

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Sharon Thatcher

By Sharon Thatcher, Rural Builder – Mushroom warehouse may be world’s largest pole barn Is there anything in low-rise construction you can’t do with post frame? It would seem not to Reuben Graber and his truss designer Dave Hurst. They … Read more »

Posted in Horse Barns, In the Industry, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Post-Frame Technique, Profiles, RB September 2012, Rural Builder Magazine | Tagged Dave Hurst, Graber Post Buildings, Graber Supply, mushroom barn, post-frame, Reuben Graber | Leave a comment

NFBA membership offers stewardship

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Jim Austin

“And it’s why we’re an industry to be proud of” /  By John Fullerton, Heartland Chapter board member / We in the post-frame industry have a lot to be proud of. We can certainly celebrate the ingenuity of the post-frame … Read more »

Posted in FN June 2012, Frame Building News, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Post Frame News, Post-Frame Technique | Tagged membership, nfba, post-frame | Leave a comment

Call for 2013 Frame Building Expo presentations

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Sharon Thatcher

The National Frame Building Association is looking for NFBA members willing to offer an educational session at the 2013 Frame Building Expo. The Expo will be held at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee, February 20-22. Proposals are … Read more »

Posted in Business and Management, Construction Industry News, Events, Frame Building Expo, Frame Building News, In the Industry, Industry Experts, Low Rise Construction, Metal Builder, Post Frame, Post Frame Products, Post-Frame Technique, Products, Rural Builder Magazine | Tagged 2013 frame building expo, national frame building association, nfba, post frame building courses, post-frame | Leave a comment

Post frame with panache: Working with architects

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Sharon Thatcher
Rural Builder March 2012 cover

An architect isn’t generally one of those positions every post-frame builder has tucked away in their arsenal of professional consultants but there are arguments for why they should be. One contractor who uses architects on a regular basis is Bob … Read more »

Posted in Featured Magazine, Frame Building News, Industry Experts, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame, Post Frame Products, Post-Frame Technique, Products, RB March 2012, Rural Builder Magazine | Tagged bob lotspeich, jim delmont, post frame, post-frame, sl construction, the design club | 2 Comments

Engineering doesn’t cost — it pays!

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Jim Austin

By Ronald Sutton, PE —— In the post-frame industry it is widely held that engaging the services of an engineering consultant is a big expense that should be avoided if at all possible. After all it is an additional expense … Read more »

Posted in FN November 2011, Frame Building News, Industry Experts, Low Rise Construction, Post Frame | Tagged engineered posts-frame buildings, post-frame | Leave a comment