SBCA Leadership Spotlight: Howard Gauger

Howard Gauger is an Executive Committee Representative on the SBCA Board of Directors. In addition to serving on the Board, Howard also holds seats on SBCA’s Executive Committee, Safety Committee, QC Committee, and serves as Chair of the E&T Committee. He has been involved with SBCA since the early 1990s and became more actively involved with Ihe E&T Committee in 1996. He saw the potential of the organization to make a real difference and the need to protect the association/industry’s interests at the standards and codes levels. Howard remains heavily engaged because he feels it’s important to give back to the industry that has given him so much.  

For Howard, some of his favorite aspects of SBCA are the people he’s gotten to know and have been mentored by over the years, the wealth of knowledge and experience available to tap into when needed, and the genuine concern for one another. Additionally, he wants to be part of the focused effort SBCA has in shaping the future.  

As a member of the Board, Howard’s goals are for SBCA to be the go-to source of information for the building industry, to be a knowledge base for others to tap in to, for members to get more involved in not only SBCA but also in other organizations that affect this industry, and to share the lessons learned with future generations so they don’t have to gain that knowledge the hard way.  

From starting out as a laborer for his uncle and friend’s framing company, to managing a local lumber and roof yard, to becoming a senior designer and trainer for Carpenter Contractors of America’s (CCA) Florida division, to moving to CCA’s Chicago division to help open the component manufacturing plant and becoming the truss engineering department manager, Howard possesses a vast experiential knowledge of this industry.  

Currently, he is the VP of Component Design for CCA’s Illinois Division. In this role, Howard enjoys the development of procedures, creating and modifying time and motion for production, creation of deck cassette procedures, driving development of software programs, and working with their supplier and team to bring these from the concept stage to use in production. Outside of work and SBCA, Howard enjoys camping with his family, loves to be out in nature, and taking a couple trips a year to visit notable light houses. Howard can be reached at info@sbcacomponents.com.