Resource Highlight: PCA’s Pre-Fabrication Operations Guide for Plumbing

April 26, 2024

Today’s successful contractors realize that each new project presents an opportunity to pre-fabricate, enhancing both productivity and profitability. PCA’s Pre-Fabrication Operations Guide for Plumbing provides an overview of pre-fabrication, including tips for contractors at every stage of pre-fabrication adoption. It’s just one of MCAA’s educational resources that are free to MCAA members as a benefit of membership.

The guide covers key topics like:

  • An introduction to pre-fabrication
  • Changing the company culture to embrace pre-fabrication
  • Personnel
  • Productivity
  • Tools
  • Processes
  • Design
  • Technology
  • Shipping, portability, and the Yellow Label Agreement
  • Supplemental designs

Along the way, it highlights questions each contractor should ask itself as well as the details of each topic.

Find the full range of plumbing-related resources in the PCA Resource Center, where you can use the blue Find A Resource bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

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