April 05, 2023

Better Building Coach Brings Innovative Products to You

April 05, 2023/ Eva Rooks

Last month was the three year anniversary of Small Planet Supply’s Better Building Coach. Designed as a mobile showroom to allow customers not able to come to our warehouse locations to see Small Planet Supply products. The COVID pandemic definitely shut things down for a while, but the coach is back on the road on a more frequent schedule. I sat down with Eric Fenno, the current Transportation Engineer and Sales Associate in our Tumwater warehouse to talk about his experiences with the Better Building Coach.

Better Building Coach Explores Four New Products and Projects on Road Trip to California

March 09, 2020/ Eva Rooks

Sometimes when you work in one place for a long time and get in a routine (write, edit, repeat), you forget what an amazing world we live in and that there are people doing incredible things to make the world better everywhere. Small Planet Supply’s Better Building Coach made its first stops in California last week. While the purpose of the trip was to get the Better Building Coach to California and to provide information about our products and services to people along the way, it was Albert Rooks and I got an education too. We met people who are making new products, are building in innovative ways and we had a lot of fun on the drive from Vancouver, BC to Monterey, California. Here are some of the really cool building products, projects and people we met along the way.

Small Planet Supply’s Better Building Coach is a Mobile Showroom that Brings the Future of Building to You

January 07, 2020/ Eva Rooks

When the idea first came up for retrofitting a bus into a mobile workshop and showroom, there were a few of us at Small Planet who were a bit skeptical. Since then, even the most reluctant of the staff admit to being intrigued by the transformation that is taking place at our Tumwater warehouse.

In October, Albert Rooks, CEO of Small Planet Supply, took possession of a four-year-old Starcraft 25-foot shuttle bus and began planning the transformation. Now, halfway through the change, we asked him why this was so important to him, especially since running the Better Building Coach entails using fuel.

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