Masonry Magazine July 1966 Page. 30
Silicone Treated Perlite Insulation more than doubles the efficiency of concrete block walls.
By filling masonry cavity walls and the cores of concrete block with perlite, heat loss and gain are reduced more than 50%. Result: improved comfort, lower heating and cooling costs, less costly heating equipment, greater customer satisfaction. It's easy for mason contractors to install Silicone Treated Perlite. Just open the bag and pour into block and cavity walls. No special equipment or skills are needed. Silicone Treated Perlite is rot and vermin proof, non-combustible, provides lasting water-repellency which stops moisture from impairing insulating efficiency.
Get in on the action now. Sell the ideal profit package-concrete block insulated with Silicone Treated Perlite. For details write to Perlite Institute, Inc., International Association of Perlite Producers, 45 West 45th Street, New York, N.Y. 10036.
Sell more with perlite in the core.
Your MCAA Insurance Consultants
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would have markedly reduced the insurance premium upon which their incomes was based. Typically, they did so because they felt it was right.
Since then Mr. Derk has been called upon to discuss this and a variety of insurance topics before a large segment of the construction industry in this country including the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, painting and decorating, electrical, acoustical tile, roofing roof-deck, excavation, general contracting and related trades. Additional time and effort has been devoted to counseling joint committees of the AGC and AIA on needed changes in contract specifications relating to insurance. A pet current project is selling varied interests on the benefits of uniform hold-harmless clauses. Again, this strikes us as an effort which is not likely to result in premium income, but decidedly does fall within the definition of real service.
As you participate in our group insurance programs including those still getting underway, you will doubtless have more occasion to come in contact with these excellently qualified people. Those of you who participate in MCAA's new Management Institute Course on Insurance for the Mason Contractor will also have an ideal opportunity to become better acquainted. Interest in the latter program, which is just now getting underway, has been enormous.
Ironically, having stressed the scope and stature of the James firm, Mr. Derk has found some of our members hesitant about asking for assistance or advice on what they feel is a relatively small matter. His answer to that is that the firm's business is founded upon a large number of long-lasting relationships, both small and large. If you want or need such assistance or service, just mention Mason Contractors Association America and you will be well received throughout the country.
AIA Requests
A request by The American Institute of Architects that the Commission for the Extension of the Capitol "reconsider and reverse its approval of the proposed extension of the West Front of the Capitol was addressed to all five members of the Commission in a letter from Morris Ketchum, Jr., FAIA, President of the AIA. Master planning under a new impartial advisory panel of leading professionals was also urged.
While recognizing that the West Front must be structurally strengthened and that efficient functioning of the Congress will require additional space now and in the future, the Institute stated that "something other than continual expansion of the Capitol must be planned."