The Contractor's Compass - June 2021

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Lumber prices hit an all-time high of $1,686 per thousand board feet in May, an increase of 406% from the $333 it was trading at the same time last year. So…as a lumber company, how do you adjust? And what’s causing the shortage? ASA chatted with Neil Agarwal and Kaitlin Krasic at G.E. Frisco, an award-winning and family-owned construction materials supplier, and one of the largest and most trusted lumber and timber suppliers in the Mid-Atlantic region, to see what they’re doing to succeed in these turbulent times.

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