The Big Secret...

What Non-Stop learned when we were a large masonry contractor...

Non-Stop was born from the lessons we learned as a masonry contractor ourselves. We were as large as any and more profitable than most. But we never bec

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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

On Saturday mornings, we would hit the old tennis courts of the local vo-tech school to practice our projects with lime mortar. Ed Shea, an old Irish bricklayer who joined us on those Saturdays, often amazed us with the wa

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IMS Masonry, Inc.
Lindon, UT
MCAA Member Since 1996

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Scaffolding: What OSHA Really Looks For
BY JUSTIN BREITHAUPT, JR.

All too often, a visit from OSHA reveals deficiencies, not only in the scaffolding, but also in the knowledge of the masonry foreman or business owner. If you're the guy payi

Scaffolding Tricks for Tight Job Sites

The surprise winner: Elevating scaffolding proves to be the king of cut-up jobs. Six pros talk about tight sites.

BY JUSTIN BREITHAUPT JR.

In the race for profits in an ever-tightening ma

SCAFFOLDING

An old myth busted
For the longest time, mason contractors have believed that elevating scaffolding is only for long, straight walls. So, what's the secret that makes it so easy to use on complicated layouts? It's the use of in

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Joe Green
Masonry
OUT Today
ACME Mast-Climbers
$ 90,000.00
Ninety Thousand 00/100
DOLLARS
Double Profit
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GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Matthew B. Keelen and
Stephen Borg

Super Committee's Super Roll
Under the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011, Congress created the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, one of the most historically significa

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If You Want to Sell More Than Price

If you want to sell more than price and improve your profit margins, you've got to offer more than a low price on a piece of paper.

As a construction industry speaker, I see thousands of different co

April 2009

MASONRY
The Votes of the Masonry Industry
Volume 45, Number 4

The Many Faces of Brick

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Rehabs & Restoration
Case Studies
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