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The three-part rule of moisture management is to “get moisture off of, out of and away from a construction detail as quickly as possible.”

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Drainable is Sustainable
Why

Drainable

IS
Sustainable
Why the best waterproofing
system includes a drainage
plane system.

BY MARK A. JOHNSON AND
JOHN KOESTER
ART BY ADAM SKODA

MOST EXTERIOR SURFACES OF A VERTICAL WALL SYSTEM DO ALL

One of the most violated areas of below-grade construction is the failure to include moisture management.

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14 Moisture Management

The importance of moisture management in below-grade construction.

22 Mortars, Mixtures and Staining

A case study in Vai

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.)
Home Construction Lending Regulatory Improvement Act of 2011

The Great Recession has hit the housing industry particularly hard. More than 1.4 million housing jobs have been lost since Apri

Moisture Management of Below-Grade Construction BY JOHN KOESTER

Basements

Building on a strong foundation has been a well-recognized principle of construction for thousands of years, but we still continue to violate the concept. One of

If the prime minister were another man, we may be speaking German today. He was Sir Winston Churchill. Perhaps his exemplary courage and speeches fostered the courage that actually won the World War II. When others may have stalled, quibbled and vacillat

SAFETY
There in Berlin. His admonitions went virtually unheeded. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Britain realized what they should have been learning. The education of what could happen to them in the near future was obvious, so Churchill's chall

CLEANING AND
CLEANING EQUIPMENT

Almeida, while at Empire, championed the purchase of a Kem-O-Kleen Masonry Cleaning System. He found that he cleaned far faster and better than ever before, even with the challenges of a densely populated cit

CLEANING CASE STUDY
By Gary Henry

Historic Building Gets
Renewed Lease on Life

Roaring '20s-era Dalton Apartments in Gary, Ind., has come back from the edge of ruin, thanks to a developer who never lost heart, a thorough inte

A SUCCESSFUL
2011
LEGISLATIVE
CONFERENCE
BY JEFF BUCZKIEWICZ

The MCAA held its annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., May 10-12. About 45 people attended this year's conference, which is one of the larger turn-out

Congressman Tom Latham addresses a small group of MCAA members at the Capitol Hill Club. Rep. Steve Austria of Ohio chats with Paul Odom.

3% Withholding Tax

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MCAA LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE

Rapidly over the next decade under current law. By 2010, the AMT will affect 33 million taxpayers - about one-third of all tax returns, up from 1 million in 1999. Last year, Congress approved a "patch" for the AMT. T