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MCAA Convention Report
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IMI is developing a program to get masonry information to engineering students. "Obviously, many of them will be making decisions as structural or consulting engineers which will affect the masonry industry," he said.
Another new IMI program, which also affects the entire industry, is that of doing a comprehensive promotional and educational job encouraging the use of loadbearing masonry, English reported. "We have found that this has generated a fantastic amount of interest in loadbearing," he said.
"In some places, however, the mason contractor who is inexperienced with loadbearing is reluctant to bid, so the job goes to the competition. With the consulting services of architect John Mock of San Diego, who is noted for his loadbearing masonry design work, IMI has produced a new slide show to acquaint mason contractors and others with what goes into a quality loadbearing job, what factors should be considered in bidding and executing such jobs, and what advance planning is needed for efficiency."
Delegates at the meeting were given the opportunity to preview the slide show. Details on viewing the film in local areas may be secured from IMI.
Also in production at IMI, English said, is a new guide outlining methods that an architect or engineer can use in estimating the dollar costs of masonry walls as well as walls of competitive products.
After the close of the Monday morning session, a seminar for MCAA chapter officers-"Negotiations '77"-was held that afternoon. MCAA legal counsel George Plumb and MCAA Executive Vice President George A. Miller shared the podium to discuss current labor issues facing the industry and to field questions from the floor.
On Tuesday morning, January 25, two workshops were held dealing with Apprenticeship and Fire. Conducting the Apprenticeship workshop was the International Masonry Apprenticeship Trust (IMAT), Robert Ebeling, chairman. Presiding at the meeting was Charles F. Velardo, IMAT trustee. The speakers were IMAT trustees G. W. Veazey, Jr. and Merlin Taylor, Executive Director of IMAT.
One of the main topics of discussion was IMAT's new publication, "The Bricklayer: Brick & Block Construction," which was introduced last November. The pioneering text is the first volume in a new three-volume set of instructional materials designed to standardize and improve training and craft skills among the trowel trades.
IMAT, the publisher of the new work, is a non-profit organization funded through negotiated contributions by the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen (BAC) and MCAA. Formed in October, 1974, IMAT was created to help meet the manpower training needs of the masonry industry.
In explaining IMAT's function, Trustee Velardo pointed out that it "is not to saddle the mason contractor with another responsibility but to relieve him of a burden. IMAT is not designed to replace successful ongoing training programs but to supplement them. It is equally concerned with manpower training as well as retraining in the masonry industry." Mason contractors are asked to contribute le per hour per manhours worked to help fund the program.
Harland Randolph, Ph.D., who co-authored "The Bricklayer" with Merlin Taylor, was in the audience and was asked to comment on the planning that went into the book. He said the subjects chosen were designed to reflect the typical work the bricklayer performs, although this may vary with the geographical area and climatic conditions, in order to achieve national standardization in manpower training methods for the masonry industry. This national program is highly significant because of the mobile nature of the masonry industry, he pointed out.
IMAT is presently preparing the second and third volumes of the three-part set, which are expected to be released later this year.
The second workshop, dealing with Fire, was conducted by the Masonry Industry Liaison Committee, David B. Soloff, Jr., chairman. The featured speaker was Ed Schultz, president, Code Consultants, Inc., St. Louis, Mo.
Schultz discussed the recent BOCA mid-year meeting which was held the first week of January and went into great detail on the proposed changes and modifications relative to this area of code work. The interest at the session was extremely gratifying and was exhibited by the fact that it extended to one and a half hours in length.
The workshops were followed that morning by the Annual Meeting of MCAA, at which Vice President Eugene George presided. The members heard reports from the association's officers, regional vice presidents and committee chairmen, as well as a number of special reports.
In the annual election of officers, all officers were re-elected to fill out their unexpired two-year terms. They are: President, Robert Ebeling, Romeo, Mich.; Vice President, Eugene George, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Secretary, Louis J. Helbert, Jr., Fort Collins, Colo., and Treasurer, Robert Harrison, Mt. Prospect, III.
Regional Vice Presidents reelected were: Region A, Anthony Zotollo, Great Neck, N.Y.; Region B, Paul Clements, Louisville, Ky.; Region C, William C. Dentinger, Jr., Brookfield, Wis.; Region D. Don Leonard, St. Ann, Mo.; Region E, Gerald Sutherland, Corpus Christi, Texas; Region F, Blaine Warner, Glendale, Ariz.; Region G, L. C. (Text continues on page 22)
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