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I’m a big believer in the power of LinkedIn. There are many ways to be successful on LinkedIn, and I wanted to share a few examples of people in the building materials industry who use LinkedIn to its full potential.

I have included people who I think are LinkedIn Rock Stars. They each take a different approach to using the platform, and you just might find that one of these approaches can work for you.

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If you have met Gerard McCaughey, CEO and chairman at Entekra, you know he’s passionate about change. His passion was the impetus for his thriving business that is based on process innovation in housing – fully integrated off-site solutions. Yet, McCaughey would say it’s not really change he’s after. It’s more that he’s dumbfounded by the amount of waste in current construction methods—wasted time, wasted resources, inefficiencies. And that wasted time is becoming a much bigger strain on the industry than ever before. Read article     View video

Hear IWBC Keynote Speaker Gerry McCaughey, CEO of California-based Entekra in an insightful Q&A podcast discussing a diversity of topics, including:

• Why is Europe so far ahead of North America in offsite construction?
• What is the difference between prefabricated components and fully integrated offsite construction?
• How does the quality of fully integrated offsite construction compare to “stick” building?
• Why is the current quality of lumber in North America not “robot-friendly”?

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The first-even Industrial Wood-Based Construction Conference, to be held in Boston October 24 to 26, will showcase the future of construction, bringing together integrated, off-site, wood-based, automated construction innovators with developers, architects, engineers, planners and others to discuss game-changing approaches to construction.

McCaughey’s keynote address, titled “If It’s Not a System, It’s Not a Solution,” is scheduled for the morning of Thursday, October 25.

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BALTIMORE – The construction of an American house embodies the spirit of the nation’s workers and the dreams of its citizens.

It’s also perhaps the least-efficient endeavor in the U.S. economy.

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Global wood products distributor’s nod to factory design and framing of walls, floors, and roofing signals a pivotal moment for building in the U.S.

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As homebuilders face labor shortages, Gerard McCaughey discusses why a process needs to be changed if the process is labor constrained and the labor situation cannot be changed, in this video “Preparing Housing for the Digital Revolution.”

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An inside look at a potentially game-changing process that’s already common practice.

Early one morning in August, veteran California carpenter Patrick Johnson showed up for work with two fellow crewmen of varying experience, Barry McKenna and Benny White, at a site in Northern California’s Eastern Valley.

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CEO Gerard McCaughey will speak on “The Dollars and Sense of Off-Site Construction” at the National Association of Home Builders 2018 International Builders’ Show, to be held January 9 to 11, 2018, in Orlando, Florida. A program of the Building Systems Community, McCaughey’s presentation is scheduled for Thursday, January 11, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

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Gerard McCaughey, CEO of Entekra, shares his experience and success of modular construction from Ireland. In this short video, he describes the value of the modular construction process and how it can help reduce the amount of labor needed, which will be key to the success of the housing industry in the next decade.

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