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CONFERENCE REPORT
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Joyce pointed out that the construction industry as a whole spends less on R&D than other, much smaller industries. "We spend a fraction of one percent, while the electronics industry, for example, spends 10 to 20 percent of its revenue for research and development. And the companies that supply products for the building industry spend considerable sums for R&D. Unfortunately, nearly all the big ones are masonry's competitors, and they are spending millions of dollars annually.
"The point is that we need a lot more research; we need research that will span the masonry spectrum. Your Association and our Union must take a much larger role in research."
As a funding mechanism, Joyce proposed that BAC local unions and MCAA chapters and members include in their contracts a one-cent-per-hour-worked contribution for research. He estimated that this fund, which would be administered by the International Masonry Institute, would grow to $500,000 annually within several years.
The final speaker of the morning was Walter Scott, NASA aerospace engineer based in Houston, Texas, who gave a color-slide preview of the maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia. The pioneering, reusable craft, which was scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral in April, is designed to be a space "freighter," ferrying satellites, scientists and various research projects into orbit and back to earth.
One of the most critical design features of the Columbia are its special heat-dissipating tiles, which cover about 70 percent of the orbiter's surface. The tiles-34,000 of them were cut by computer controlled machines, and no two are exactly alike. The ceramic coated units are bonded to the spacecraft's skin and are able to withstand temperatures up to 2,300 degrees F during the craft's re-entry into earth's atmosphere. In laboratory tests the tiles were capable of dissipating heat so swiftly that a NASA engineer could hold one of them in his hand only moments after it was heated beyond 2.300 degrees in a kiln.
The second and final session of the Conference was convened at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 3. The slate of speakers consisted of three professional engineers-Kevin Callahan of the National Concrete Masonry Association, Mario Catani of the Portland Cement Association, and Alan continued on page 28
In a special drawing at the Monday Opening Session, Charles Seedorff of Seedorff Masonry, Inc., Strawberry Point, lowa, was the lucky winner of a $250 check from MCAA. He is congratulated by MCAA president Louis J. Helbert, Jr., while George A. Miller, executive vice president, looks on.