With the release of the final estimates of second quarter 2016 GDP growth (revised up three-tenths to a 1.4% growth rate), housing’s share of gross domestic product (GDP) held steady at 15.7%. The home building and remodeling component—residential fixed investment—as a share of GDP declined slightly to 3.5%.
Read more at NAHB Eye On Housing
The report, entitled Building Solutions to Climate Change: How Green Buildings Can Help Meet Canada’s 2030 Emissions Targets outlines the Canadian Green Building Council’s (CaGBC) response to the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change, which committed Canada to meeting or exceeding the government’s 2030 target of a 30 per cent reduction below 2005 levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The report makes four key recommendations for meeting Canada’s climate change targets while boosting the growth of Canada’s green building industry. The recommendations are based on research from the WSP Group and Acton White Associates, who examined the carbon savings potential of existing buildings and net zero buildings, and who also analyzed investment requirements and economic benefits. Read More in Sourceable >
WMA CONVENTION PRE-REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
WMA Convention & Tradeshow pre-registration is now closed. Registration is now onsite only.
CONVENTION HOTEL AVAILABILITY – SHERATON GRAND PHOENIX
The WMA host hotel, the Sheraton Grand Phoenix, currently still has rooms available. If you have not booked your hotel room, contact the Sheraton directly before they are gone at (602) 262-2500.
Attention: WMA Distributors
Due October 3, 2016 – WMA DISTRIBUTOR DUES RE-CERTIFICATION FORMS
All distributor home offices were mailed annual dues re-certification forms. Please, remember to submit your annual re-certification forms with any company changes or updates to WMA before October, 03, 2016. Please make a point to do this today. All information is confidential to WMA headquarters.
WMA ANNOUNCEMENT
WMA Welcomes New Member Stampede Sales & Hardware, LLC.
Stampede Sales has over 35 years of experience representing manufacturers in the millwork industry and building relationships with customers to help bring value to their Doors, Door Hardware, Prehungs, Windows, Iron Doors, Commercial products, and Millwork products.
Visit www.stampedesales.com for more information
WMA Welcomes New Member Rohden Doors USA, Corp.
Rohden Doors USA CORP is part of Rohden Group with headquarters located in South Brazil. Rohden has two plants that produce Pine Doors for export and for Brazilian domestic market. Rohden Doors provides the doors produced in Brazil for some of the largest distributors in the United States building industry. Our doors are made out of Plantation Pine from sustainable sources and the finishing of our doors can be Primed, Knotty, Clear Pine, Vertical or Mixed grain, glazed doors in different styles.
Visit www.rohdendoors.com for more information
WMA media partner, DWM, reports this week that during a recent webinar on surviving an OSHA inspection, Keven Yarbrough of Yarbrough Safety Solutions and a former OSHA assistant area director, advised that when an inspector from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) visits your business there’s a list of ten tips you should follow: 1) know how to properly greet your compliance officer; 2) develop a plan of protection; 3) properly document the training you have provided; 4) know your construction safety standards; 5) know your rights; 6) make sure you collect the same evidence as collected by the inspector – “be a copycat;” 7) don’t argue with the inspector; 8) be aware that you’re always on the record, “so no idle chatter;” 9) be wary about signing anything; and 10) make sure you give confident answers. Read More in DWM >
S&P Dow Jones Indices released the Case-Shiller (CS) National Home Price Index for July. The index rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 5.0%, faster than the 2.1% in June. House prices have decelerated since the beginning of 2016 due to the sharp decline in existing home sales at the end of 2015. But, home prices started to accelerate in May and home price appreciation increased to 5.0% in July.
Read more at NAHB Eye On Housing
When an inspector from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) visits your business, do you know what to do? Most managers don’t, according to Keven Yarbrough of Yarbrough Safety Solutions. He led a webinar on surviving an OSHA inspection during the recent Best of Success conference in Marco Island, Fla.
Read more at DWM
Consumer confidence hit its highest level in nine years, right about when the last recession began, according to the Consumer Confidence Survey conducted by The Conference Board by Nielsen, a provider of information and analytics around what consumers buy and watch.
Read more at HOUSINGWIRE
In this section we highlight the WMA 2016 Exhibitors featuring Cabinetry.
In the face of worldwide housing shortages and a lack of skilled construction labor, Eric Dean wants to disrupt home building—and make construction trades all but obsolete.
Read more at PROSALES
Calls on states, cities and towns to remove impediments to construction of more affordable housing.
Read more at BUILDER
World Millwork Alliance (WMA) 54 TH Annual Convention & Tradeshow will hold its’ premier event at the Memphis Cook Convention Center from September 11-15, 2018. WMA will offer Veterans and Students complimentary access to the exhibit hall during Millwork Career Day on Friday, September 14, 2018 during the show hours of 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
WMA welcomes Veterans and Students to explore a career in the millwork industry. Learn from worldwide millwork professionals while viewing the finest millwork products. Meet with industry distributors and manufacturers about the opportunities in a millwork career.
Pre-registration for a name badge is available by completing a WMA Registration Form. Any local Student or Veteran who has pre-registered will pick up their complimentary “Expo – One Day Pass” with a valid student ID or Veteran ID at the WMA registration desk in the Memphis Cook Convention Center.
Veterans must show a Veteran’s Administration (VA) identification card to receive an “Expo-One Day Pass” and to gain entrance into the exhibit hall on Friday, September 14, 2018.
Students must show a valid Student photo I.D. card to receive an “Expo-One Day Pass” and to gain entrance into the exhibit hall on Friday, September 14, 2018.
Pre-registration is open until August 13, 2018; thereafter, registration is onsite at the WMA registration desk in the Memphis Cook Convention Center.
