This document brings focus to the common interests of the industry and includes policy goals to revitalize our nation's housing and building industry.

The American Lumber Standard Committee's Board of Review issued a decision yesterday on the revised designed values for Southern Pine that had been proposed in October by the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau.

Registration is now open for NLBMDA's Spring Meeting and Legislative Conference which will take place from March 5-7, 2012 at the Marriott in Washington, DC. The LuDPAC fundraising luncheon on Monday, March 5 will feature Alex Castellanos, GOP Political Strategist and CNN Political Analyst.

The new "ambush election" union rule issued by the National Labor Relations Board yesterday creates unprecedented and sweeping changes to union election rules in the workplace at the expense of small business owners.

Congress reinstated the higher conforming loan limits for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) through 2013, helping reduce uncertainty for an already fragile housing market.

The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA) announced its new leadership team installed on October 26 at the ProDealer Industry Summit in San Antonio, Texas.

NLBMDA has released the second edition of the Scope of the LBM Industry Report which explains why building material dealers operate the way they do and how they have evolved in response to the marketplace, noting valuable benchmarking data for all members of the building industry—especially vital in today's tumultuous economy.

Jobsite deliveries using articulating/knuckle boom trucks exempted from rule.

The new "Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting" (RRP) rule took effect April 22, 2010.