Total Solutions Plus, Day Two

Another exciting and full day of meetings.

TCNA had their board meeting today - many reports on the issues that we've been working on all year, including discussions about the 2012 edition of the TCNA Handbook. Tile Council has laid out some very aggressive plans for many new member programs for next year that will certainly benefit our industry.

CTDA had a full agenda today of committee meetings including: Convention Planning, Membership and Benefits committee, CCTS Testing, Education, Marketing & PR, Green Building, and Certification committee. All of those back to back meetings covering all the many activities this group does for their members.

NTCA spent the entire day in the Technical Committee, of which I am a member, and we covered 18 different issues as well as 3 new business items. One of the highlights of the day was a hands on demo of the proper way to hang CBU backer board units on steel studs and an overview of the new "EQ" gauge steel studs and what to look for when you find them on your job site. A great number of items come out of this committee and go on to become industry standards for products and installation methods.

The day just ended with the CTEF Board meeting with 10 business items discussed including an update on the Certified Tile Installer Program progress for this year as well as strategic planning for 2012. We are looking at some very exciting new program plans to continue to improve the installation side of our industry.

Many interesting meetings happening this week at TSP and starting Thursday we will have the start of the Breakout Sessions where the real learning takes place.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's update.

Steve