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2009 Annual Meeting October 10-13
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September 18, 2009 Overall Housing Numbers Up, Single-Family Down Permits and starts for privately owned housing units were up overall in August, but the numbers fell in the single-family housing category. The U.S Census Bureau reported yesterday that permits issued for privately owned housing units in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 579,000, 2.7% above the revised July rate of 564,000. Single-family permits were at a rate of 462,000, 0.2% below the revised July figure of 463,000. Overall starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 598,000, 1.5% above the revised July estimate of 589,000. Single-family starts were at a rate of 479,000, representing a 3% drop from the July revised figure of 494,000. Click here for the full release and a breakdown of all statistics by region. |
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SFPA Staff Members Speak at Inaugural Georgia Tech Event Two SFPA staff members were among speakers at the first-ever Georgia Tech Wood Expo, an event organizers hope to hold every other year from now on. The inaugural event was held Sept. 9-11 in Atlanta with about 200 people attending. Designed for architects, specifiers, builders, suppliers and distributors, the Expo offered three concurrent tracks: “Design and Planning,” “Codes and Standards” and “Products and Methods.” The Expo also featured exhibits.
Speaking from SFPA were Cathy Kaake, senior director of engineered and framing markets, and Richard Kleiner, director of treated markets. Cathy spoke about raised floor foundations, while Richard covered topics related to using pressure-treated Southern Pine. Raised Floor Living was also among the event’s sponsors (click here for list).
Visit www.gtwoodexpo.com for more information about the Expo, or contact Cathy at 504/443-4464, ext. 213, or ckaake@sfpa.org; or Richard at ext. 211, or rkleiner@sfpa.org. |
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Raised Floor Sweepstakes Starts Next Week
Starting on Wednesday of
next week, residents in Jacksonville, Fla.,
and the surrounding area can
sign up to win the services of a designer to help them design their dream
home. Of course, that dream home will be designed with a raised floor
foundation. The “Design Your Dream Home” sweepstakes is part of a three-
Also boosting awareness of raised floor systems in the Jacksonville area will be a series of two-minute television segments created to promote the sweepstakes and explain the benefits of raised floor foundations. The segments feature SFPA’s Cathy Kaake, senior director of engineered and framing markets, and Richard Kleiner, director of treated markets. They will be seen on WTEV-TV (CBS) and WAWS-TV (FOX) beginning the day the sweepstakes opens and concluding with a segment featuring the winner on Dec. 9. Advertisements promoting “Raised Floor Living” started airing in the Jacksonville area last week and will continue running through early November.
Complete sweepstakes details will be available on www.raisedfloorliving.com starting Sept. 23. The television ads, one of which carries Raised Floor Living’s environmental message – can be viewed by clicking here and here. We’ll provide links to the television segments as soon as they’re available. Meanwhile, for more information, contact Richard Wallace, SFPA’s vice president of communications, at 504/443-4464, ext. 236, or by e-mail at rwallace@sfpa.org. |
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Rooms Still Available at Special Rate Good news – the hotel hosting SFPA’s 2009 Annual Meeting will continue to offer SFPA’s special room rate even though the cutoff date has passed. The meeting will be held Oct. 10-13 at The Roosevelt in New Orleans. The rate is $159 plus taxes for a single or double room. To reserve a room, call 1-800-WALDORF or click here for an online reservation form. Refer to group code SFP. For a brochure with meeting details and agenda, click here. And for more information, contact Dianne Breaux at 504/443-4464, ext. 225, or by e-mail at dbreaux@sfpa.org. |
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phase
set of events the Southern Pine Council and APA are sponsoring in northeast
Florida to promote raised floor systems. The first two phases are being
conducted through APA's “Raise the Floor 2009 Design Challenge,” which
features competitions for builders and designers. The services of the
winning designer will be awarded as a prize to the sweepstakes winner.
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