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4 Podcasts for Homebuilders

Driving from job site to job site and looking for something different to listen to? Check out one of these podcasts for homebuilders, featuring experts in building materials, lumber and the housing market.

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Wilson Lumber To Partner with Next Step Farms

Wilson Lumber is excited to announce a partnership with Next Step Farms to construct a large pole barn where the organization will start a day program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Managing Mental Health In The Construction Industry

To improve the health of your workforce and ensure that your company is positioned to recognize these specific challenges, we must prioritize workers’ mental health to the same level as wearing safety goggles and tagging out live circuits.

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Wilson Lumber No. 60 in Top 100 Lumberyards in the Nation

Wilson Lumber is honored to be recognized in the inaugural LBM JOURNAL 100, a ranking of the nation’s top pro dealers and lumberyards by 2020 sales.

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Skilled Labor Shortage

If you make your living in the construction industry, you have no doubt been affected by the shortage of skilled labor across the nation.

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The Benefits of Floor Trusses and Engineered Wood

While engineered floor trusses are nothing new, they have continued to increase in popularity over the past couple of decades due to their exceptional strength, construction advantages, durability and reliability.

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Doing Business for God's Glory

‘Christlike principles’ is a much better base for decision making than the whims of how I’m feeling at the moment. And I’ve found that doing business for God’s glory is way more fun than doing it for my glory.

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Employee Spotlight: Josh Hendrickson, Director of Sales

Selling building materials wasn’t initially what Wilson Lumber Director of Sales Josh Hendrickson sought to do with his life.

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Wood Trusses - Reliability You Can Count On

Over the past 20 years prefabricated roof trusses have become one of the most reliable and cost-effective wood framing options for builders and contractors.

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Owner Spotlight: Russ Wilson

A bottle of Coca-Cola at Wilson Lumber cost only 35 cents when Russ Wilson started working here circa 1989.

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Leader Spotlight: John Marshall

John Marshall has enjoyed a career that has taken him around the U.S. and the world, before landing him in the Rocket City of Huntsville, Ala., in 2001 where he has been COO of Wilson Lumber for the last five years.

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Employee Spotlight: Jackie Crutcher

In one of his college engineering classes, Jackie Crutcher had to design a set of house trusses by hand. “I thought to myself, ‘If I ever get out of this class, I will never look at another truss as long as I live.’”

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