Earlier this year, Mason Knowles of Mason Knowles Consulting stepped down as chair of the SPFA Consultant Committee. SPFA would like to thank Mason for his many years of service to SPFA as past Technical Director and Executive Director (2004-2008), and more recently as chair of the Consultant Committee since 2011. During the first 2022 meeting of the Consultant Committee on April 12, Tom Harris of Tom Harris PUR Consulting, LLC was nominated and unanimously elected as the new chair of the SPFA Consultant Committee. Please welcome and congratulate Tom in his new role. Should you have any questions about the Consultant Committee activities, please contact either Tom Harris at tom@letstalkpur.com  or Rick Duncan, SPFA Executive Director, at rickduncan@sprayfoam.org. 

Thank you to everyone who responded to the most recent SPFA survey. The purpose of the survey was to gauge the interest of SPFA members and convention attendees about the possibility of holding dates outside of the traditional January-February pattern. SPFA will use this information in our specs for 2024 and beyond. We’ll broaden the spectrum of dates to include March and as always, we’ll do our best to avoid World of Concrete, the International Roofing Expo and the National Association of Home Builders.

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In March, the Associated Builders and Contractors’ Construction Confidence Index decreased from 66.8 to 65 for sales expectations; 66.3 to 66.1 for staffing levels; and 56.2 to 50.2 for profit margin expectations.

After just over two years of a largely successful "zero-COVID" policy, China is facing its biggest test to date in the metropolis of Shanghai and the supply chain headaches that come with a massive lockdown.

The transportation construction world continues to learn lessons about risk and relationships in design-build. With an unprecedented amount of federal aid anticipated for highway, bridge and transit projects, it is also starting to move further toward progressive design-build (PDB).

Insulall Corporation, Gainesville, VA, www.insulallcorp.com

 

Newman Construction Consulting, Chicago, www.newmanllc.net

The SPFA Equipment Committee has recently published a new TechDoc, SPFA-155 - Low Pressure Spray Polyurethane Equipment Guidelines. This new document, similar to SPFA-137 for high pressure equipment and SPFA-144 for coating equipment, provides an overview of equipment needed for safe application of low-pressure SPF materials. This document can be downloaded as a PDF free of charge for SPFA members or purchased from the SPFA Online Store.

SprayFoam 2022 participation in the PCP reinvigorated the interest in becoming certified.  For those of you who started the certification process – please watch for our emails and information on how to complete your certifcations.  If you have any questions, call us and we will walk you through the process.

Please visit the SprayFoam 2022 Recap pages to get the latest information on what transpired in San Antonio in the PCP.  The Certification Activities page recognizes the great work that was done by industry partners in making the Field Exams happen. The great news is that you can still earn your certifications, even though the convention ended.  With the exception of the Field Exams, everything else can be done remotely and we are here to help!  If you need a Field Exam, we will work with you to arrange. Simply contact certdirector@sprayfoam.org for details.

SPFA is doing its part to bring awareness of open positions in the industry to our members, partners, and untapped talent pools. For every one of these positions going unfilled it’s an opportunity missed, an extra staffing challenge drawing attention away from other important priorities, or a customer perhaps needing to wait longer than they should have to.