Masonry Magazine June 1993 Page. 31
The International Association of Concrete Repair Specialists has a new name: the International Concrete Repair Institute, meeting recently in Las Vegas. Fred Hightower, vice president of the Pyrament division of Lone Star Industries, Houston, Texas, is the new president for 1993. Milton J. Collins will remain as executive director. Headquarters will remain in Sterling, Virginia.
George C. Hoff, engineering associate of Dallas Exploration and Producing Engineering, has been elected president of the American Concrete Institute for 1993.
Bernard J. Faloney, chairman of Contractors Machinery and Equipment, Burlington, Ontario, has been elected president of the Associated Equipment Distributors for 1993.
A Way To The Top
# A Solid Work Platform
Non-Stop towers are built from heavy gauge tubular steel and trussed every 4-6 in height. This gives our 16" wide towers incredible strength and sway-resistance. Because of this advantage, you can safely land materials on the laborers' platform, exactly where other systems tell you to never land a load. In actual on-the-job tests of free-standing Non-Stop tower, landing a full cube of 12 Mocks (2350 pounds) on the laborers' platform at 20 feet high produced a backward flex of less than one inch! This kind of strength and stability means your men will feel safe and secure on a solid working platform. And, you can safely stock ahead to free your forklift for other duties.
# X-Braces Stay In Place
The x-braces are always in place for maximum safety and stability. They simply pass through the work platform both going up and coming down. Non Stop introduced this unique design to eliminate the dangerous, time-consuming chore of removing and replacing braces as the platform is raised. When the wall is topped out, Non-Stop can be lowered and ready to go to work again in one third the time of scaffolding without this feature. This advantage reduces your labor to only two feeding materials to the masons, and raising the scaffold as needed.
Mike Boucher has been named executive director of the Washington State Conference of Mason Contractors. Boucher is a former mason contractor and a graduate construction engineer from Iowa State University.
Sheldon Peskin and David Sovinski have been appointed new regional marketing promotion directors for the International Masonry Institute. Peskin will be based in Highstown, New Jersey, at IMI's new training center. Sovinski, formerly executive director of the Masonry Institute of Indiana, will be based in Chicago.
Atlas Bolt and Screw has opened a national distribution center in Ashland, Ohio located halfway between Columbus and Cleveland. The center will service all customers in the northeastern and mid-western states and provide replenishment shipments to company locations in Georgia, Texas, Oregon and Canada. Service from the Coraopolis, Pennsylvania facility has been discontinued. Address of the new center is 1628 Troy Road, Ashland, Ohio 44085. Phone is 800/321-6846.
Cassady-Pearce, Pittsburgh, has been named a distributor of GE Silicone's line of general construction and firestop products.
Roy A. Seelbinder, president of Seelbinder Construction, Troy, Michigan, has been reelected chairman of the Masonry Institute of Michigan, an office he has held since 1990. Also reelected to office were: Mariano DiGiovanni, president, Central Masonry and Cement, Rochester Hills, vice chairman; John Robovitsky, president, Robovitsky Construction, Southfield, secretary; and Charles Wilson, vice president, Monte Costella Company, Novi, treasurer.
The Masonry Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, has elected James A. Miller, United Materials and Services, Manassas, Virginia, president; Pat Poole, Potomac Valley Brick and Supply, Rockville, Maryland, vice president; Peter B. Hoyt, Betco Block and Products, Manassas, Virginia, treasurer; and James C. Davis, United Masonry, Alexandria, Virginia, secretary. Elected as trustees for the Institute's Supplier Promotional Trust were: John F. Ciesel, United Concrete Products, Frederick, Maryland; Ron Cline, Glen-Gery Corporation, Manassas, Virginia: J. B. Mock, L. B. Smith Company, Alexandria, Virginia; and Alan Richardson, Potomac Valley Brick and Supply, Rockville, Maryland.