Sponsor A Builder Seminar

Looking for a great way to build solid relationships with your contractor customers? Try sponsoring a Builder/ Remodeler Seminar offered jointly by Western Wood Products Association, Southern Forest Products Association and APA-The Engineered Wood Association.

Seminar sponsorship provides an excellent, inexpensive way to help your customers, educating them on wood products and their appropriate applications. They also serve as great training for a retailer's own staff.

The seminars provide professional remodeling and building contractors with the basics on wood plus specific "how to" information necessary to deal successfully with building designers, suppliers and clients when specifying, purchasing and utilizing wood construction systems.

The emphasis is on the technical aspects of lumber and framing techniques, including details on code requirements.

Presented by qualified representatives of the three major wood product trade associations, Builder/Remodeler Seminars comprise a full day of audiovisual presentations, hands-on design examples, open discussions and questions and answers.

This year the seminar program has been updated, with the addition of an engineered product section, updates on resource and timber supply issues, and information on secondary wood products such as windows, doors, moulding and millwork.

Association representatives do not charge retailers to conduct the seminars, but sponsors are responsible for mailing Western Wood Products Association-provided invitations, arranging for a meeting room, handling refreshments and covering the cost of the binders ($20 each) given each attendee.