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MCAA Certification Calendar
The following is the MCAA's education calendar for certification:
# May 11
Masonry Wall Bracing Seminar
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Safety
Credits: 4
# May 12
Overview of Masonry Special Inspection, Codes and Standards (NCMCA Mod 7)
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Codes & Standards
Credits: 6
# June 1
Recordkeeping Interpretations, Proposed Rules and New Emphasis Programs
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Safety
Credits: 1
# June 8
HazCom - With GHS What will Stay Vs. What Goes?
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Safety
Credits: 1
# June 15
Emergencies on the Job Site - Are You Prepared?
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Safety
Credits: 1
# June 22
Seismic Requirements of the Building Code
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Codes & Standards
Credits: 1
# June 29
How to Become an Equal Partner with the General Contractor
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices
Credits: 1.5
# July 6
How to Develop and Implement an Effective Quality Control Program
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices
Credits: 1.5
# July 13
How Codes Change the Way We Construct Masonry
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Codes & Standards
Credits: 1.5
# July 20
An Introduction to LEED and Masonry Construction
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: General
Credits: 1
# July 27
Stone Fabrication for Restoration and New Construction
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Masonry Products
Credits: 1
# August 3
Quality Assurance for Masonry
Location: ONLINE
Discipline: Codes & Standards
Credits: 2
Online classes available at www.masoncontractors.org. We now offer Masonry Live Education Webinars on Wednesdays at 9 a.m. CST.
For more information or to register for any of these programs, please go to http://certification.masoncontractors.org/education/index.php
reports directly to Matt Fearon, VP and general manager, Terex AWP Americas.
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Survey Shows Shifts in Hospital Construction Projects
America's hospitals and health systems are focusing more on renovation or expansion than new construction, according to a new survey conducted by Health Facilities Management magazine and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering. In fact, renovation or expansion accounted for 73 percent of construction projects at hospitals responding to the survey. The findings show that hospitals have been working to update or replace their infrastructure to better serve patients and help transition to greater use of information technology (IT). In addition, hospitals are focusing on being environmental stewards through greater use of green construction.
Overall, slightly more than one in four respondents (26.1 percent) reported that their organizations have building projects currently under construction. About 15 percent of this total involved new construction, 11.6 percent involved replacement facilities and the remainder covered expansion and renovation. In this latter category, many of the additions or modernization projects were for emergency departments, imaging, surgery areas or cancer centers.
While the construction increases aren't dramatic, experts say there's a clear shift in priorities that characterized previous construction trends to more emphasis on IT and other infrastructure improvements. More than one out of four hospitals were building service systems to accommodate the needs of electronic health records. A third of the 598 responding hospitals reported that they were replacing or upgrading their air handlers or ventilation systems, and one in five was upgrading a data center or planning to.
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