Masonry Magazine January 2012 Page. 60
INDUSTRY NEWS
Sabourin Launches Online
Equipment Marketplace
Kevin Sabourin, who has more than 15 years of experience in the equipment industry, has launched an online equipment marketplace, www.Equipmentsite.com. The searchable equipment website uses the latest web design, search engine optimization and social media opportunities to encourage interaction between buyers and sellers, and maximize potential for equipment sales.
Equipmentsite.com distinguishes itself in the community of online service providers by focusing on efficiency, ease of use and attentiveness to the many different levels of the equipment sales process.
By compiling listings for nearly every brand of equipment on the market and implementing the latest SEO techniques, dealers, fleets and rental centers are ensured a sales platform that will rank highly in all organic searches. The optimized site provides benefit for both buyer and seller making the connection between both parties simple, intuitive and effective.
The integration of online tools and social media outlets drives even more traffic to the site, putting the equipment in front of an expanded base of potential buyers. Further enhanced targeting is offered through specific search criteria such as brand, make, model and year, with buyers also able to streamline a search by condition, location and industry. For more information, visit www.equipmentsite.com. IMAS
Sigmon Memorial
Design Competition
Winners
Carlos Avalos Ezquerro, fourth from left and his team partner Benjamin Sanchez Andrade (not shown, graduate exchange students from Mexico, won the inaugural Appalachian State University North Carolina Masonry Contractors Association (NCMCA) Sigmon Memorial Design Competition, held in Boone, NC, in December. Ezquemo and Andrade will share a semester's tuition as their prize. Twelve teams participated in the competition to design and model a hypothetical masonry infill bulliding section as a graded assignment in the ASU Commercial Building Design program.
Left to right, Jeff Tiller, chairman, ASU Department of Technology and Environmental Design: David Jason Miller, architect lecturer, ASU Department of Technology and Environmental Design: Past NCMCA President Doug Burton, chairman of the Sigmon Design Competition, judge for the completion: Ezquero, and J. Patrick Rand, FAIA, alumni distinguished professor of architecture, NC State University College of Design, who, along with Doug Burton, developed the NCMCA Sigmon Memorial Design Competition at NC State 11 years ago, and who served as a judge for the ASU competition. Jason Miller, who, as a graduate student at NC State, placed Second in the NCSU Signon Competition in its second year at NC State, worked with ASU's assistant professor Chad Everheart and NCMCA's Sean Vamer (Argos) to initiate the competition at Appalachian. The design competition is named in memory of brothers David and Dwayne Sigmon, and Dwayne's son, Randy, all of whom were active in NCMCA before their untimely passing, IMAS
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