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Come to PCBC® 2010 and Experience a Bold New Exhibit Floor
For over 50 years PCBC has been attracting exhibitors to share their innovative products with the nation's top builders. These are products designed to improve the homebuilding process, increase energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, enhance home and community design, and solve unique construction challenges.

With the building industry facing unprecedented change; from the economy, the market and the buyer, PCBC 2010 offers you more opportunities to access the information you need to be ready for what’s next. By breaking down the walls between learning, exploring, practicing and doing we’re helping transform the exhibit floor into a Learning Laboratory.
Three Days of Exhibit Hall Access
Wednesday, June 9 | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday, June 10 | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Friday, June 11 | 9:00am – 3:00pm

The Learning Laboratory

THE TOWN SQUARE – Information Central
With so much to explore at PCBC 2010, The Town Square offers the perfect place to start. Watch a live media event or participate in social media activities or join us for the Curator-Led Tours which offer a unique in-depth exploration of products and processes as industry experts guide you on a tour of their favorite solutions at PCBC.

GREEN STANDARDS PAVILION – What You Need to Know Now
The mandatory California Green Building Standards Code takes effect January 1, 2011. Are you ready? Learn about the scope of the California Green Building Standards Code and find the solutions at the Green Standards Pavilion. Here you will discover the answers through brief but concentrated Q&A sessions with code experts, informative displays, and product solutions covering the areas addressed by the mandatory code.

THE EXHIBITORIUM – A Learning Theatre
What does the future bring? The Exhibitorium provides you with latest solutions to today’s issues. Find the answers as we explore the new world of Smart Grids and Renewable Energies; the newest solutions in the world of Building Science; and the many opportunities of Energy Retrofitting. The Exhibitorium, offers a venue for the conversations of tomorrow, without leaving the exhibit floor.

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PCBC Show at San Francisco Is "Pretty Busy"

Deck Expert stopped in to walk around yesterday at PCBC; there is activity and while the show is much smaller (one hall, as oppsed to 2+ in past years) there were plenty of builders walking around.

Several of our sponsors were displaying there products and busily scanning badges for product literature to be mailed out to prospects and future followup.

Partners Jan Bagnall & Jeff Zember
of Pli-Dek were at their 10th
PCBC show.

Mer-Ko Parex displayed as well with a large corner that brought in traffic.

From a Vendor With a Booth at PCBC " There are lots of people here today"

One of my advertisers and I were conversing a little while ago while he is on the floor displaying at PCBC, which opened today at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

He told me that he is quite pleased with the traffic on the show floor today...

Maybe there is some new life coming back into the "mostly dead" body of new construction. (With credit to Billy Crystal from his role in Princess Bride).

Anyway, head on over to see what is happening and meet your peers on the floor.

I'll be there tomorrow, wearing a T shirt with the DeckExpert.com logo...stop me and say hello!

PCBC Opens on Wednesday!

PCBC opens on Wednesday at Moscone Center!

San Francisco will be the host city yet again for the largest homebuilder show.

Stop on in, the industry is regenerating for the next wave of building...the realy players will be there. Will you be there?

Click here for more info on the show.

Deck Expert will be walking the show on Thursday, look for me in our new logo t Shirt!

PCBC IS COMING UP SOON!

PCBC is coming up quick! June 17 to June 19, 2009 at Moscone Center San Francisco is where you'll find the latest building information, tools and materials.

Deck Expert will be there visiting all his favorite manufacturer's and seeing what's up in waterproofing and deck coatings.

Pli-Dek and Mer-Ko, sponsors of DeckExpert.com will be there, as will AVM Industries and Multicoat.

Notably absent are Crossfield/Dex-O-Tex, Hill Brothers, Westcoat and others who have been at the show before...sign of the times perhaps with shrinking show budgets? PCBC is an expensive one to exhibit at.

The rest of us will crowd into hall and make our way around to visit.

Notable speakers include Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's Sunday morning show a a reporter for Newsweek and Adam Werbach, Sierra Club president.

Come celebrate PCBC's 50th birthday with your peers!

PCBC is Coming In June, Register Now for a Free Partner Pass

PCBC is giving away free partner passes for admittance to all exhibits and 3 keynote speakers.

To get yours, go to pcbc.com/go/freepass and use discount code FP2009.

With the construction market soft and other shows canceled, this is a great opportunity to meet up with other pros, network and pursue opportunities that are available...

I will see you there at the show!

PLI-DEK wins the Deck Expert's Contest

Having swiped my badge at a number of manufacturer's and vendor booths,
I always wonder when (or if) I'll get my requested information in the mail.

This years winner of my "Get the sales Lit into the customers hands>" contest is PLI-DEK, a manufacturer of deck coatings and epoxy. Monday morning I went to my PO Box and there was their package, already waiting for me...

Jan Bagnall, a partner in the firm explained-"We set up our swipe system so that every badge swiped gets electronically sent to our contact database at the home office. Our staff was assembling and mailing out the packages as the swiped cards came through."

Huh, pretty simple. And effective, I have their information to review, before any other deck coating manufacturer, before anybody else.

Pretty impressive.

A couple years ago I went and worked a booth of a manufacturer; the hours of time, the investment into the show and all the leads that came in went missing or unused somehow, and we ended up with nothing to show for it. They could take a good lesson from PLI-DEK, who certainly isn't wasting their money or time.

PCBC Humming With Activity

Winding it down today, PCBC was pretty busy from reports from several manufacturer's I know are displaying.

Mer-Ko, with parent Parex/LaHabra is there...they got some serious real estate tied up in prime spot...

Pli-Dek has a nice looking booth too. Pli-Dek has snappy new literature and binders at their booth waiting for you.

I got a great sample from Multi-coat, their Slatex Systems Below Grade Waterproofing system on a mini-cinder block.

Lots of interesting products, not much new on decking this year that I've heard of. I saw one manufacturer, Quick Drain has a cool stainless steel trough with a snap in cover that looks like it might be adaptable to waterproof decking.

One thing to remember when venting decks in California; new codes require vents that won't let embers in. Gunter Manufacturing 916-652-7424 has 'em. Fire safety is not something to trifle with. These vents will keep you in complaince with California Willand-Urban Interface fire code program.

AVM, Westcoat and Excelelnt Coating/Tufflex are there too, so stop by the show and see the many products and solutions to your building needs.

PCBC NEXT WEEK!

Be there or be square?

Should be interesting to see who is there this year, what's being talked about (soft market) and building products...

See you there on Wednesday...

PCBC 2008

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