Lumber Briefs: Building a Bullish Lumber Base for Rising Housing Starts Matt Layman In both the lumber and stock markets, there are more disruptions coming in 2019. The immediate influences of government shutdown, mass exodus from stocks, on-going trade war, volatile oil market, fight to suppress interest rates, President Trump’s legal issues, and global economic and... Read More February 2019 Issue #11235 Page 84
Code Corner: New Year, New Code Developments Randy Shackelford Happy new year! A new year brings new developments on the Building Code front. A summary of relevant code activities follows. ICC Update With the end of 2018 and the start of 2019, the ICC Code Development Cycle for the 2021 I-Codes moves into its second year. The Group A cycle online... Read More February 2019 Issue #11235 Page 96
The Last Word: (Another) Last Word on Southern Pine Joe Kannapell Despite our reservations about Southern Pine lumber, the timber industry is betting billions that we’ll buy it. Soon the output of SYP mills will race past other domestic species. Fortunately, technological improvements, both at the saw mill and in our component plants, aim to overcome our... Read More February 2019 Issue #11235 Page 109