Simpson Strong-Tie

As a leader in the building industry, Simpson Strong-Tie has been recognized by our customers, affiliates and associated organizations for our support of the construction industry and our dedication to providing exceptional product quality and customer service. 84 Lumber Company, the largest privately held supplier of building materials in the United States, named Simpson Strong-Tie its 2012 Vendor Partner of the Year. 84 Lumber has more than 4,000 vendors. Simpson Strong-Tie has been honored with the distinguished "Partners of Choice" Award for over 10 consecutive years.

For over 60 years, Simpson Strong-Tie has focused on creating structural products that help people build safer and stronger homes and buildings. Considered a leader in structural systems research, testing and innovation, Simpson Strong-Tie is one of the largest suppliers of structural building products in the world. At Simpson Strong-Tie we value the individual, and the creativity that individuals can bring to the workplace. You join this company for a career, not a job! In keeping with the Company's commitment to the communities in which it does business, we are an equal opportunity employer.

In the second webinar of this two-part builder webinar series, we'll explain how dynamic estimating can drive operational efficiency and reduce cost. Pipeline Cloud Estimating Module improves a production builder's option and takeoff management by taking exact measurements that quantify the total materials required to finish a project. Watch the recording of this live event to learn how Pipeline can create more accurate purchase orders easier and faster than ever before. A URM building retrofit or repair can reduce the damage experienced from a seismic or wind event and can go a long way to increase the building's performance, leading to reduced risk to life, repair or replacement costs and downtime for these often historic structures.

Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. has established a scholarship program to assist architecture, structural and civil engineering and construction management students. The Student Scholarship program offers scholarships to support education and encourage the design and building of safer structures in our communities. Scholarship applicants must be enrolled as juniors (at least 60 semester hours or equivalent) or seniors in a full-time undergraduate course of study at an eligible four-year college or university for the entire upcoming academic year.

Our research and development activities have led to many advances in the building industry. Over the years, we have developed countless products that help ensure structural safety and reduce cost, and created new construction systems to improve the way structures are designed and built. Our corrosion research was instrumental in helping develop product solutions when the industry switched to new, and often more corrosive, formulas of pressure-treated wood. We actively communicated research and product recommendations to the building industry.

Simpson Strong-Tie has collaborated with academic and industry researchers on three NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) projects. In 2009, we spent many months in Japan working on the world's largest earthquake test. The NEES-Wood Capstone project featured a full-scale, seven-story wood-framed building and was built with Performance-Based Design. In 2013, we participated in NEES-Soft, a seismic retrofit test of a four-story building in San Diego. That same year, we donated product and provided technical expertise for the CFS-NEES project, a series of earthquake tests for cold-formed steel-framed buildings.

To better understand how structures perform, we regularly collaborate with other researchers and research facilities across the United States. We often donate products to universities for testing purposes, and our engineers volunteer their time to teach courses. We also lend financial support to further research efforts. A few examples include our donations to Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, WA establishing the Simpson Strong-Tie Excellence Fund and Simpson Strong-Tie® Research and Testing Lab, to California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo for the construction of the Simpson Strong-Tie® Materials Demonstration Lab, teaming with researchers at Colorado State University to conduct seismic testing of multi-story, wood-frame buildings, and donating product and providing technical expertise for a series of earthquake tests for cold-formed steel-framed buildings at Johns Hopkins University.