Masonry Magazine October 1968 Page. 22
Seasonality Study Approved
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White House. Deadline for submission of the report is the same in both versions-December 31, 1969.
The House is expected to accede to the Senate modifications.
Supporters of the legislation noted that both management and labor representatives in construction testified in favor of a study of seasonal factors, a probe that would be undertaken consultation with all elements of the industry, as well as all concerned government agencies.
The study is expected to cost $300,000, with the money coming out of regular funds available to the Department of Labor for administrative purposes.
The report said there is a "clear need" for contracting agencies to institute new policies to diminish seasonality and recommends that an executive order be issued directing them to program their activities with this in mind Effectuation of the order would be monitored by an interagency board.
The report also recommends that the Commerce Department launch a "major research and development effort" on techniques permitting wintertime operation, that consideration be given to a new arrangement under which appropriated construction funds do not have fiscal year limitations, in order to spread work throughout the year.
The report says only fragmentary information is available at present on the extra costs associated with wintertime construction under presently known construction techniques. But the savings in unemployment insurance benefits alone that would flow from a greater amount of year-round construction would make up for extra winter construction costs of from five to 10 percent.
ACI To Hold Convention
The American Concrete Institute will hold its 1968 Fall Convention, November 3-8, at the Sheraton-Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee.
Included in the full week's program are two half-day symposium sessions on the "Effect of Temperature on Concrete," a symposium session on the "Application of Probabilistic Concepts to the Strength Design of Reinforced Concrete Members," a session on "Design/Construction," and a Research session on both plain and reinforced concrete.
Chairman of the symposium session on the "Application of Probabilistic Concepts to the Strength Design of Reinforced Concrete Members" is Jack R. Benjamin, chairman of ACI Committee 348, subcommittee E, and professor, Department of Civil Engineering. Stanford University, Stanford, California.
General chairman of the Convention is Frank P. Palumbo, consulting engineer, Memphis, Tennessee.
MMCA 'Incorporated'
The Michigan Mason Contractors Association formed in 1966, and comprised of local Mason Contractor Associations, was recently incorporated as a Michigan non-profit organization under the name of Michigan Mason Contractors Association, Inc.
The Chapter members are Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Port Huron. Officers for 1968 are: Al Hazewinkel, State Chairman; Norman Parker, Vice State Chairman; Dwight Lewis, past State Chairman; Grant Church, Secretary-Treasurer. The Delegates are: Robert Ebeling. Detroit; Alex Simpson, Flint; Louis Bomhof, Grand Rapids; Norman Parker, Lansing; Gerald Burde, Port Huron.
The primary purpose of the State Association is to promote the masonry industry locally and state-wide.
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masonry • October, 1968