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- Redesigned Building of the Year Awards Program for post-frame builders
- Safety update: Hazard Communication Standard deadlines, requirements
- NFBA Board Chair’s Message: A redesigned Expo awaits you in Nashville
- PFMI Update: Post frame’s opportunity continues to grow
- MFM introduces new high temperature underlayment: Ultra HT
- Portland State to build green roof research site on Walmart store
- An argument for fully engineered post-frame buildings
- Product Profile: Ventilation
- Icon offers hydraulic overhead doors
- Midwest Roofing Contractors Association presents industry awards
- Free webinar: Beyond lead generation — developing leads that turn into sales in 2012
- Post frame with panache: Working with architects
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RB July 2012
Rural Builder Gold Key of Excellence Winners for 2012
By Sharon Thatcher, Rural Builder — Perhaps 30 years is just a blip on the timeline of world history, but a lot has certainly happened in the last 30 years. I get a kick out of checking the proverbial time … Read more
2012 SIPA Building Excellence Awards
The Structural Insulated Panel Association recognized nine homes and commercial buildings that demonstrate the high levels of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability achievable with structural insulated panel (SIP) construction during the 2012 Building Excellence Awards ceremony held at the SIPA … Read more
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Constructing energy-efficient buildings with SIPs is fast and simple
By Bim Fischer If structural insulated panels (SIPs) grew in the forest as trees do, it’s likely stick framing never would have taken off. Given a choice between installing large section SIP walls, roofs and floors at one time versus … Read more

The July 2012 Issue of Rural Builder tells you 
