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tors, coefficients and stresses that are used repeatedly.
It is intended to be a tool for use by those already familiar with ultimate-strength design in general and column design in particular.
Copies are available from American Concrete Institute, Box 4754, Bedford Station, Detroit, Mich. 48219.
MORGEN Scaffolding Takes Months Off $1/2-Million Masonry Job
By combining a mechanized material handling system with Morgen Scaffolding, Barmore Masonry Co., Louisville, Ky., sped up by months the masonry work on an enlisted men's complex at Ft. Knox.
Barmore used only 30 Morgen towers on each three story building. A fork-lift truck moved completely erected pairs of towers to other walls or other buildings, which slashed his cost of scaffolding erection. The fork-lift truck stocked brick and block directly to spaces between the towers where the masons could reach them without rehandling by laborers.
Morgen Scaffolding speeds up masons' production 20% or more by keeping them constantly at the most efficient working level. By allowing them to see what they are doing, it also increases the quality of workmanship. Government inspectors said that Barmore's work is far above the standards that they require that this is one of the better masonry jobs the Corps of Engineers has had.
Barmore had an ample supply of tubular scaffolding when he bought Morgen. "But every time I don't have Morgen Scaffolding on the job," Irvin Barmore says, "I catch hell from the men. We've had it so long now that they're spoiled."
On small jobs and big jobs, Morgen rapidly pays for itself by saving labor. See what it can do for you. Write for literature today.
Laborers raise the two-level platform carriages individually to keen the masons waist high to the wall. A fork lift truck stocks pallets of brick and block within their reach on a material platform 22" above the masons' platform.
MORGEN MANUFACTURING CO. Dept. 160-H3 Yankton, S. Dak. 57078
Basic Building Code, 5th Edition/ 1970
1970, published by Building Officials Conference of America. 504 pages; 20 articles; 13 appendices. Three bindings: paper, $10; cloth, $12; looseleaf and vinyl, $14. 30% discount to members plus discounts on quantity orders.
This modern, performance type code, now in its 20th year, states regulations in terms of measured performance rather than in rigid specification of materials and, in this way, makes possible the acceptance of new materials and methods of construction which can be evaluated by accepted standards, without the necessity of adopting cumbersome amendments for each variable condition.
By presenting the purposes to be accomplished rather than the methods to be followed, the Basic Building Code allows the designer the widest possible freedom, and does not hamper development. It accepts nationally recognized standards as the criteria for evaluation of minimum safe practice, or for or determining the performance of materials or systems of construction.
The application of these standards is stated in the text of the code requirements, but the standards are listed and identified in the appendices of the code, making it practical and convenient to update any standard as it is revised or reissued by the sponsoring agency.
This fifth edition presents the code as originally issued with changes approved through 1969, and with certain editorial changes made to maintain the sequence of the code, to correct obvious errors of previous edi-