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Who Should Buy?
What People Say?
 


Doug Bracken
President
Challenger Homes, Edmonton, AB

“I find the Builders’ Manual is also really useful when I want to show consumers what we are planning to do, or why we are doing it in a certain way. The manual is put out by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association – an organization consumers recognize as credible. It’s written in laymen’s terms and the illustrations are easy to understand. I can show our customers that we are following recommended procedures and best practices, which helps us to demonstrate that we are professionals, building a quality product.”

Energy and Environmental Building Association
Bloomington, ME

“Canadian conditions make unusual demands upon builders. To withstand the wide temperature fluctuations, driving rain, snow and sun of Canada, homes have to be better built. It is no wonder then, that the Builders Manual is considered as a "bible" of the residential construction industry in Canada. Many techniques pioneered in the R2000 program are now authoritative guidelines for building superior, energy efficient housing in North America.”


Oliver Drerup
Head
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s International Training Team

“When we travel around the world to tell people about Canada’s top quality housing construction, we use two books: CMHC’s Canadian Wood Frame House Construction Handbook, which is an excellent start-to-finish overview, and CHBA’s Builders’ Manual, which deals with upgraded construction, special features and energy efficiency. The graphics in the Builders’ Manual are second to none – they can be understood across cultures.”

Richard Lind
President
Everts Lind Enterprises, Bridgewater, NS

“This new version of the Builders’ Manual has even more information than the last one, and everything has been brought up to date. I bought a copy for each of my site supers, and we all use our books a lot as a reference. With its tables, graphs and sidebar boxes, I know I can find what I’m looking for quickly. My guys even use it to look up questions, trying to stump each other over lunch.”

Henry Herbstreit
Field Inspection Manager
Planning and Development Department, City of Surrey, BC

“We principally use the CHBA Builders’ Manual when we address builders’ concerns out in the field. There are a lot of builders who are very conscientious about what they do, and we often get enquiries about how they can enhance their construction techniques and provide a better product for their clients. They may have had a problem before with some detail and they want to do it in a better fashion. So we can look it up and use the drawings in the manual as a reference.”

Jack Baillie
Marketing Director, Building Supply
Home Hardware Stores Ltd., Canada

"We feature the CHBA Builders' Manual as a construction guide in our Home and Cottage seminar program. It's full of wonderful information that fills a real void. We see it as a win-win-win situation for our consumer customers, our contractor customers, and our company."

Tom Cochren
President
Thomas Cochren Homes, Waterdown, ON

“Builders today are finally realizing that their workers and trades aren’t going to retraining courses. So, if we want them to do something differently, we have to teach them ourselves. With the Builders’ Manual, the diagrams and illustrations are easy to follow. I can explain in words, and point to a detail drawing and say ‘See how this line follows through here?’ – and they get it. I use it a lot when we’re building R-2000 homes, and when I’m building in Russia.”

Andy Goyda
Marketing Development Manager
Owens Corning, Canada

"All of our salespeople use the Builders' Manual when they're talking to builders and consumers. We stress energy efficiency, and this walks you through, step by step, all the Dos and Don'ts of how to do things properly. It's the most informative manual we have seen in the industry."

Paul Pashulka
Construction Manager
Jager Homes, Calgary, AB

“We use the CHBA Builders’ Manual for ideas when we’re designing homes – or if we need to solve specific problems. And whenever we get somebody new in the design department, or a new superintendent, we give it to them to take home and read. They come back understanding a lot more.”