Masonry Magazine February 1972 Page. 20
People & Events...
activities also has been announced by PCA. He formerly was national accounts executive for the association's Pacific Southwest region. Edward A. Dugard has been named district manager at PCM Division of Koehring, Port Washington, Wis. The Unit Masonry Association of Greater Cincinnati held its Informational Dinner Meeting on February 2. Featured topic was "Masonry Mortars-Color Makes the Difference" with Al Tomassetti, technical service manager of masonry products, Louisville Cement Co., the principal speaker.
"I must do something" will always solve more problems than "something must be done."
E. L. Ramm Co., LaGrange (III.) building material house, has announced the following new corporate officers: Clarence H. Ramm, Sr., board chairman; Kent A. Ramm, president; Clarence H. Ramm, Jr., executive vice president; James A. Gillstrom, vice president-marketing; Robert A. Blessing, secretary, and Norman P. Crooks, treasurer. The Structural Clay Products Institute is proposing to distribute a new file folder to hold its Brick & Tile magazine. The ringless binder will hold a year's supply of six issues and can be filed vertically or horizontally. According to a Brick & Tile survey, 96% of architects receiving the magazine file each issue, and the folder is designed as a convenience for subscribers.
Interlocking Blocks
Introduced in Britain
A quick and easy method of wall building using concrete blocks which dovetail into each other to form a close fitting joint without mortar has been developed in Britain and is being offered for licensing here. The New-Wall interlocking masonry system is said to enable unskilled labor to erect a good quality wall in any weather, to cut construction time, and to reduce overall construction costs by as much as 40%.
A typical 3'-high corner section of wall, racked out both ways, was built in 4 minutes, compared with 134 hours using bricks and mortar and 30 minutes using ordinary concrete blocks and mortar, the company said.
Suitable for building most simple structures up to 10 high, from a garden wall to a factory, the blocks are slid into position from the front or rear until the face is flush with the course below. They can be made in solid or hollow-cored form and taken apart and rebuilt as temporary structures, such as site huts. For retaining walls or other permanent structures the hollow units can be filled with reinforced concrete.