Eastern Building Components, Inc.

Eastern Building
Components, Inc.

Modified: May 17, 2006

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Why build with components?

When it comes time to build your next house, your options will range from conventional stick building to using all pre-engineered structural components, including roof trusses, floor trusses and wall panels. By choosing to use structural components, you can spend up to 75% less time and money on labor!

Read below or follow the links for more facts and figures on how much using Eastern's building components can save your next project.

Click play on the right to see a quick video on Framing the American Dream®.

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	Framing the American Dream®, a project sponsored by the Wood Truss Council of America, individual component manufacturers, supplier companies, and the Building Systems Council of NAHB, featured two 2,600 square-foot homes built simultaneously. One was built using wood component systems framing, and the other fully engineered conventional stick framing.

What was learned about components?		Savings by Components 66.5 man-hours! That's almost a 75% reduction in your cost of labor!
Components 26.5 man-hours	Stick-Framing 93 man-hours
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