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February 2014

T h e Vo i c e o f t h e M a s o n r y I n d u s t r y Volume 53, Number 2

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Shown on the cover is First Security Bank in Bozeman, Mont., an entrant in the Brick Industry Association’s 2013 Brick in Architecture Awards – Restoration Category. The architect was Prugh & Lenon Architects P.C., builder was R&R Taylor Construction Inc., and photographer was Eubank Photography.

Case Study:

Lightweight Block, Heavyweight Benefits At the Maryland Science Center, lightweight concrete masonry units paid for themselves by saving masons half the labor.

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Fire Safety Through Brick

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It just makes sense to protect your most valuable assets with the fire resistance and durability of brick.

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Case Study:

University of Oklahoma’s Headington Hall The culmination of five years of planning, design and construction of a residential hall for the University of Oklahoma

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Spotlight on Safety An interview with Corporate Safety Director Zach Everett sheds light on why safety matters.

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BIM-M: A Work in Progress David Biggs, P.E., S.E., provides an update on Building Information Modeling – Masonry (BIM-M), two years into the process.

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Chairman’s Message

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Government Affairs

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MCAA Upcoming Education

MCAA Strategic Partner Program

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MASONRY Magazine Jennifer Morrell Editor jmorrell@lionhrtpub.com

What a ‘World’ It’s back, baby. World of Concrete is back. And that’s good news for all of us in the masonry industry. We are smack in the middle of the “new normal,” and for many, it’s a pretty good place to be. I recently returned from the World of Concrete/World of Masonry show in Las Vegas, and the word down the aisles and out on the lots was that business still is picking up, strengthening and showing promise for the future. I talked at length with several mason contractors and many manufacturers of the materials used every day on the jobsite, and one thing became clear. The Great Recession taught everyone a few lessons about working smarter, operating leaner, and keeping a nest egg tucked away for unexpected economy crashes. And, instead of missing the “good ole days” of the early-2000s, most people seemed resolute in that they are wiser and have a greater appreciation for what they have, for their employees who stuck with them, and for their own abilities to thrive and survive. As per usual, I was blown away by the continuing innovation across the construction industry. A reoccurring theme for masonry was energy efficiency through insulation, wraps and envelopes. Moisture management and furthered sustainability are paramount to the life of masonry buildings, and industry R&D is on top of it. On another exciting note, the MCAA ushered in a new chairman, Mark Kemp, during the Annual Meeting held during World of Concrete. John Smith Jr. joins the ranks of MCAA’s group of outstanding past-presidents. John has served us well, and I will miss hounding him for his Chairman’s Message every month. Now I get to work closely with Mark, who is one of the funniest, smartest and most positive people I know. What a great group we have in the MCAA. So, another World of Concrete trip is behind us. We learned a lot, saw a lot and enjoyed one another, as always. Did you attend this year? I would love to post your photos on our Facebook page, so everyone can see the high-energy, invigorated environment at World of Concrete. Send them to jmorrell@lionhrtpub.com, include a caption to i.d. the images, and I’ll post them proudly. ❙MAS

Official Publication of the Mason Contractors Association of America and the Canadian Masonry Contractors Association The Mason Contractors Association of America is committed to preserving and promoting the masonry industry by providing continuing education, advocating fair codes and standards, fostering a safe work environment, recruiting future manpower, and marketing the benefits of masonry materials.ion of America is committed to preserving and promoting the masonry industry by providing continuing education, advocating fair codes and standards, fostering a safe work environment, recruiting future manpower, and marketing the benefits of masonry materials. MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Chairman Mark Kemp Vice Chairman Mike Sutter Treasurer Paul Odom Secretary Paul Oldham Regional Vice Presidents Robert V. Barnes, Jr. Ron Bennett Steve Borman Edwin Davenport

Glenn Hotmann Gary Joyner Michael Schmerbeck Rick Swanson Larry Vacala

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EXECUTIVE STAFF Government Affairs Representatives Director of Marketing, Education, and Information Technology Director of Training and Workforce Development Administrative Assistant Consultant

The Keelen Group Timothy W. O’Toole Terry Ruppel Ann Trownsell Rashod Johnson

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD David Jollay (Jollay Masonry Contractors), John Chrysler (MIA), John Melander (PCA), David Hill (Pettit Construction Co.), John J. Smith (John J. Smith Masonry Co.), Brian Grant (Grant/Jack’s Masonry), Jerry Painter (Painter Masonry, Inc.), Doug Nichols (Doug Nichols Enterprises), G. Alan Griffin (Griffin Contracting, Inc.), Tom Daniel (GBC Concrete and Masonry Construction, Inc.) Executive Office 1481 Merchant Drive Algonquin, IL 60102 Phone: 224.678.9709 or 800.536.2225 Fax: 224.678.9714

MASONRY is the official publication of the Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA) and the Canadian Masonry Contractors Association (CMCA). The magazine acts as a sounding board without approving, disapproving or guaranteeing the validity or accuracy of any data, claim or opinion appearing under a byline or obtained or quoted from an acknowledged source. Opinions expressed by officers do not necessarily reflect the official views of MCAA or CMCA. The appearance of advertising or new product information doesn't constitute an endorsement by MCAA or CMCA of product featured. MASONRY ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL OFFICE

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CHAIRMAN’S M E S S A G E Mark Kemp Chairman Mason Contractors Association of America Mark@superiormasonry.com

Ready for Action I thought seeing as how this is my first article as your Chairman of MCAA, I should start with a brief introduction. For those who do not know me, my name is Mark Kemp, and I am the CEO of Superior Masonry Builders Inc. Superior is located in Milwaukee, Wis., and yes, I am a cheese head, Go Packers! Superior Masonry has been a member of MCAA for almost 50 years. I, personally, became involved with MCAA around 15 years ago

COMING IN MARCH 2014 Be sure to catch the March 2014 issue of Masonry, which will feature articles covering current trends and examining industry issues, including:

MIXERS, PUMPS & DELIVERY SYSTEMS An expert updates Masonry readers on the strides made in this industry area, resulting in increased efficiency and effectiveness.

SAW BLADES Masonry will review the latest and greatest saw blades available for your mason contractor arsenal.

SUSTAINABILITY Masonry is a naturally green and sustainable product. Masonry reports. For advertising information, contact

Marvin Diamond 770.431.0867, ext. 208 Toll-free: 888.303.5639 E-mail: marvin@lionhrtpub.com

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starting as a regional VP. In 2004, the silica issue first raised its ugly head, and I was asked to chair the Construction Industry Silica Task Force. In 2006 the Task Force created a best practice manual to be used by the construction industry. This document was later modified and accepted by ASTM E-34. After serving many years as a regional VP, I was asked to serve on the executive board as treasurer. This was a very difficult time for MCAA. We hired a new executive director, moved the MCAA headquarters to a more manageable building size, and – like all of you – we had to make cuts to make sure MCAA would have a bright future. The good news is that the MCAA is back on solid ground, committed to serving its members to the highest degree. So, with the New Year come new goals and visions. MCAA will continue and strengthen its role as a leader in the masonry industry. MCAA will serve as the hub for the masonry industry working together with associations like NCMA, BSI, BIA, IMI, BAC and others for the good of the industry. The masonry industry has been fragmented far too long. The MCAA must and will take the lead to accomplish this very important task. By combining our strengths, we can eliminate our weakness. The MCAA will look at new options to reach out regionally to our members. I feel it is very important for me to hear our members’ and non-members’ needs and concerns, and to take action to resolve them. This reaching out will not only help strengthen our relationship with our existing members, but also serve as a means to attract new mem-

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The MCAA is back on solid ground, committed to serving its members to the highest degree.

bers. By growing our membership, MCAA becomes a stronger force to take on the many problems facing our industry. The voices of many are always louder than a few. Every leader has a different approach or style to lead. Some give great speeches and promise change but never deliver. I believe action speaks louder than words. So, I ask for your support to help me continue to make the MCAA the voice of the masonry industry. Together, we can accomplish great things for our industry. Remember, the MCAA is your association, and without your support and participation, it would not exist. In closing, I assure you I am excited and honored to lead your association for the next two years. I also would like to thank those who have served before me. I am blessed to work with a group of executive officers who share my visions along with Jeff, your president, all the regional VPs, committee chairs, state chairs, the MCAA staff and everyone who is a member and supporter of the MCAA. I look forward to meeting each and every one of you during my term and, if you see me, introduce yourself. To all of you, have a great day; and if you are not, then make one! ❙MAS The Voice of the Masonry Industry

GOVERNMENT A F F A I R S

Matthew B. Keelen

What’s Ahead for 2014 Once again, we had a productive and busy year in Washington, D.C., battling onerous regulations, promoting vital legislation, and continuing to raise the profile of the Mason Contractors Association of America in our nation’s capitol. While we had many successes and laid the groundwork for many continued efforts, I wanted to take this time to update you on the year ahead and where we are headed. Hopefully most of you reading this article, like me, have just returned home from Las Vegas and the annual MCAA Convention during World of Concrete/World of Masonry, ready to hit the ground running in making our voices heard in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country. As you know, Congress has just returned from their year-end recess to convene the 2nd Session of the 113th Congress, and I wanted to take this time to recap what will be the driving issues in Congress that will likely affect the MCAA and your businesses. The biggest outside influence on this year will be the mid-term primary elections and the subsequent general election in November 2014. Most of the debates and actions taken in Congress this year will hinge on their potential impact on messaging and political maneuvering. One of the biggest ways this political maneuvering will play out is in the Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriations process. At the end of 2013, Congress passed, and the President signed, the first budget agreement to be agreed to in years, setting forth spending levels for the next two years. This, in turn, will likely open the door for the 10

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House and Senate Appropriations Committees to return to their traditional ways of debating and passing individual appropriations bills, instead of having to rely upon continuing resolutions, omnibus appropriations packages, and the threat of government shutdowns. Returning to “regular order” will allow MCAA and our coalition partners to have avenues to hold the administration accountable on costly, overbearing regulations and set the groundwork for other priorities such as life-cycle costing of federal projects. We were also quite successful at the end of 2013 in promoting H.R. 1563, the Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act and will take this momentum into 2014 to, hopefully, push Congress to pass our legislation and have the President sign the bill into law. We are currently up to 121 bipartisan cosponsors in the House of Representatives (over one-quarter of all Members of the House) and continue to work with Leadership in the House to schedule a vote on the House floor. I will, once again, encourage you, if you have not already done so, to contact your Member of Congress and request that they cosponsor this vital piece of legislation (information on the legislation can be found at www.masoncontractors.org or by contacting MCAA). We have had great success in states like Wisconsin and Texas in partnering MCAA member outreach with our lobbying efforts here in Washington, D.C., to gain vital support for this issue and legislation, and would love to replicate those efforts in

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influence will be the mid-term primary elections and the general election in November. states throughout the country. I will end this article by giving you an update on what will likely be the biggest issue that MCAA and you will face in 2014, and that is the proposed new rule being pursued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to further reduce the permissible amount of workers’ exposure to crystalline silica. As currently written, this proposed rule would have a drastic impact on you and the masonry industry as a whole, as it is vastly unworkable. MCAA has joined various coalitions, will testify in front of OSHA at its public hearings, and continues to educate Members of Congress on this wrongheaded approach to workplace safety. With the rulemaking process continuing to quickly roll forward and deadlines fast approaching, this issue will remain our top priority in the first half of 2014, and I would implore you to educate yourself on this issue and get involved in MCAA’s efforts to block OSHA’s misguided push to enact this new rule. We look forward to yet another eventful and exciting year in fighting for you and your businesses, and we will continue to update you on our efforts here in Washington, D.C., as the year progresses. Happy New Year! ❙MAS The Voice of the Masonry Industry

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By Don Eberly and Laura Drotleff | Images courtesy of Big River Industries

Lightweight Block, Heavyweight Benefits At the Maryland Science Center, 24-inch-long lightweight concrete masonry units paid for themselves by saving masons half the labor.

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ix constructed block warehouses at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore are a testament to on-

time and on-budget delivery. Built by St. John Properties, the buildings provided the center with a distinct advantage, both in the way they were constructed and the resources used – time, labor and materials. The project called for six new warehouse buildings to be constructed on a section of the property about 300 yards from existing buildings. The warehouses were to be rented out for storage to a high-profile tenant with a strict timeline. The buildings had to go up quickly to fill the demand. Knowing that constructing such a large project in an expedited situation would come with its share of budget concerns, the contractor for St. Johns Properties turned to Ernest Maier Inc., a local block, masonry and hardscaping supply company, for a solution. As a manufacturer of normal weight masonry units, Ernest Maier already had been working with Big River Industries Inc., a producer of expanded clay lightweight aggregate. Brendan Quinn, owner/president and CEO of Ernest Maier, knew that lightweight masonry block would fill the need for a fast turnaround in construction, while staying within the project’s budget. The units contain Big River Industries’ expanded clay lightweight aggregate, called Riverlite, which makes them lighter and, ultimately, reduces labor and time in construction. “Lightweight block increases productivity even at the same labor pace,” says Quinn, “and workers are typically more efficient, because the lighter block is less work intensive.

GET IN, GET OUT As a result, the contractor used E-lite 24-inch-long lightweight concrete masonry units, supplied from Ernest Maier, in place of the standard weight 16-inch gray units. In doing so, he reduced construction time and labor specific to this part of the project by 50 percent. In all, 6,600 24-inch-long lightweight units were used for the straight walls and corridors of each of the four 75,000-square-foot buildings at the Maryland Science Center. The mason also used several 12-inch lightweight units and a variety of normal weight material for other applications within the job. Using lightweight block worked within the building’s budget, the mason found, and he benefited from using this alternative in several ways. In addition to getting paid by the square foot, he also made money for completing the job faster. His crew was better off for using lighter weight units and avoiding common injuries associated with heavier block. According to Jeff Speck, VP of sales and marketing with Big River Industries Inc., these are the key benefits of using lightweight masonry units, especially in large jobs like warehouse construction. “The lightweight factor helps contractors complete projects sooner, so they can generate revenue from the projects earlier, which is better for the property owners as well,” says Speck. “In construction, we all know time is money, and if property owners can reduce the number of days it takes to construct a building, it helps them project when it can be rented and begin earning revenue.”

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WHAT MAKES LIGHTWEIGHT UNITS LIGHTER? The E-Lite units used for the buildings contain 60 percent Riverlite, 28 percent natural aggregates, and the rest is cement and water. The finest gradation of the expanded clay lightweight aggregate (LWA) qualifies as a reclaimed material, which is a benefit for contractors applying for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits. Together with its sister companies, Parker Block in Delaware and Skyline Brick in Virginia, the Maryland-based Ernest Maier produces millions of units annually, ranging from standard weight to extra light. A good portion of its products contain expanded clay LWA, produced at Big River Industries’s Southeastern facilities. The quality of the expanded clay LWA results from a carefully controlled manufacturing process. “In a rotary kiln, selectively mined clay is fired in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit,” says Speck. “The clay expands, cools and is then processed to specified grading.” The result is a high-quality, lightweight aggregate that is inert, durable, tough, stable, highly insulative and free-draining to meet stringent structural specifications. Familiarizing with the process by studying Big River Industries’s Q-Lite units, Ernest Maier developed its E-Lite block to provide customers like St. John Properties with a unique approach to time, labor and cost savings. “The lightweight units have better thermal properties, saving property owners money on heating and cooling,” Speck says. “Additionally, they have superior fire resistance, providing more structural stability, which is an improvement over regular weight material; and, they’re safer to handle.”

PRODUCTIVITY IS CRITICAL Despite all the benefits using lightweight block offers, most construction projects are ruled by the budget and the bottom line, according to Quinn. “Even though it makes complete sense to use a lighter weight option, it is tough to persuade some architects and contractors to do it because of the upfront price tag,” Quinn says. “But, the savings is realized in the end.” In masonry construction, the cost of labor has evolved, with legal labor in the $12 to $13 per hour range, and up. Inflation rates can cause contractors to refrain from spending more for materials. “But, with labor costing at least 50 percent of many masonry unit projects, the 50 percent labor savings that is attainable by using 24-inch-long lightweight units more than pays for the addi-

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Revitalizing NYC’s South Street Seaport SG Blocks Inc., a provider of construction solutions using code-engineered cargo shipping containers, has, in conjunction with Hunter Roberts Construction Group and Bayer MaterialScience, completed an installation at the South Street Seaport in New York City for the Howard Hughes Corp.'s "See/Change" initiative. The pop-up retail installation at Pier 17 features 11 insulated and wired SG Blocks with window openings and French doors. The company worked with its vendors and the building crew on site to have the entire structure installed over a two-day period. Construction of the full installation totaled five weeks. "In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, speed of delivery and durability were paramount in quickly bringing consumers back to the South Street Seaport,” says Paul Galvin, CEO of SG Blocks. “As the formal redevelopment of Pier 17 is now underway, the SG Blocks Building System illustrates the value of activating a site with temporary and commercial applications concurrent with predevelopment. There is the additional benefit for retailers of testing the viability of a marketplace before committing to building out permanent space. SG Blocks continues its expansion into the retail market with the Pier 17 project being emblematic of the retail development opportunities that exist.” For more information, visit www.sgblocks.com. tional upfront product cost,” Quinn says. “Block is only 10 percent of what makes up many masonry contracts. “For instance, with a $2 million project, the cost of the block could be approximately $200,000,” he continues. “Labor makes up 50 percent of the costs. If you can take a variable cost like that and improve it, the overall cost of the project will go down.” In the case of the Maryland Science Center warehouses, the mason was handling 24-inch-long units, which weigh the equivalent of 16-inch-long normal weight units. He gained 50 percent more wall area by placing the same number of units, at the same labor pace. To assist in pre-planning the upfront product costs versus ROI, Quinn provided detailed spreadsheets to the project planners, providing line item descriptions for the costs and savings they would realize by using the lightweight alternative. From there, he worked with the Maryland Science Center warehouse project team on a strategy to keep costs aligned with the budget.

LEARNING NOT TAKEN LIGHTLY Though the technical components of using lightweight block are easier because it weighs less, the longer, 24-inch units did cause a slight learning curve for the mason on the Maryland Science Center site. The cores of the 24-inch units are larger, because they are longer;

filling the cores requires more grout. Thus, the mason came up with a way to reduce the grout volume. Ernest Maier offers classroom education at its Maryland facility to advance learning about lightweight concrete masonry and the related benefits and applications for architects and contractors nationwide. This education will include masonry techniques for lightweight block, such as grouting for larger sized units and other matters. One of the reasons Ernest Maier’s E-Lite block was chosen in the Maryland Science Center project was for the company’s familiarity with the masonry industry and needs in the area. The business earned a visit from Pres. Barack Obama, who was touring manufacturers’ facilities to generate interest in the construction industry.

SAFETY AND SAVINGS, HAND-IN-HAND

According to Speck, aside from the 50 percent labor savings that the 24-inch-long lightweight units can provide, using them also takes safety programs and corporate accountability to another level. “If employers treat masons well, as the productive members of the company who they are, using lightweight block is a long-term investment in the ethical treatment of employees,” Speck says. By thinking in terms of money that can be saved from having fewer back injuries and workers’ compensation claims, contractors stand the chance of decreasing significant relational costs of projects. “A contractor once told me that one back injury costs his company more money than the difference in the price of normal weight block versus lightweight block,” Speck says. “That savings would buy lightweight block for two years.” When it comes to initial product selections, preliminary costs and the possible eventual outcomes surrounding masonry projects such as this one, thinking long term might very well yield the highest level of profitability. ❙MAS Don Eberly is the president and CEO of Eberly & Collard Public Relations, a national firm specializing in research, writing and integrated marketing for design, build and construction companies – deberly@eberlycollardpr.com, 404-574-2900. Laura Drotleff is a researcher and writer with the firm. Contact Ernest Maier to learn more at www.ernestmaier.com, and log onto www.riverlite.com to attain information about Big River Industries.

Environmental Product Declaration for U.S.-Made Concrete Masonry Products Angelus Block Co. Inc., a producer of concrete masonry products and interlocking concrete pavers, has released an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its concrete masonry units (CMU). Angelus Block serves a region from the Central Coast of California to San Diego. An EPD is a standardized way of communicating the environmental impacts of a product in a scientifically recognized and compact format. EPDs are receiving significant attention as an important first step to achieving product transparency "labels" akin to the nutrition information found on food products. Sustainable design, as a movement – and in some cases a mandate – to construct buildings that minimize impacts to environmental and human health continues to grow and evolve. Life Cycle Assessments and/or EPDs have contributing roles in green rating systems such as LEED, Green Globes, and The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), and by state and local codes such as California's CALGreen. USGBC’s launch of LEED v4 is moving the needle with several new credit

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requirements that include product EPDs. The new credits introduce several options and reporting requirements for demonstrating transparency in materials. Building product manufacturers that wish to remain in the green arena are assessing how to comply. Angelus Block is the first U.S. CMU producer to publish an EPD. It includes a substantial set of 69 individual mix designs for products from each of the seven CMU manufacturing locations in and beyond the Los Angeles metroplex. The more rigorous requirements of LEED v4 also present a challenge to architects in identifying materials that not only contribute to the green goals of a project, but also are within a pragmatic distance. Angelus Block's EPD is available for download at www.angelusblock.com/docs/Angelus_Block_EPD.pdf. The initial release is an internally verified report. A Type III, third-party verified report is planned and pending the adoption of a CMU-specific Product Category Rule (PCR) currently in development. A PCR provides instructions for data and reporting in the creation of an EPD.

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Buildings stand a better chance of surviving a fire when clad with brick.

Fire Safety Through Brick The brick: It wraps itself around your most prized possessions – unless, of course, you live in a house clad with lesser materials. And those prized possessions? You and your loved ones who dwell inside those four walls. It just makes sense to protect them with the exceptional fire resistance and durability of brick and other masonry products.

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From that moment, the size of the fire doubles every 60 seconds. A two-inch wood floor joist or wall stud will burn through in about three minutes. It takes only 20 minutes for a fire to consume the entire building. That leaves only minutes or, perhaps, just seconds for you and your family to escape. Fires can start within the building from cooking appliances. Faulty wiring is another cause of fires, especially in older houses. But fires also can start outside the house from charcoal grills, grass fires, and heat from nearby house fires. It only makes sense to protect your house and family with a cladding that will 16

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not burn, and will protect it from outside fires for an hour or more. That cladding is fired clay brick. Proven fire protection BRICK INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS have long recognized the exceptional fire resistance of genuine clay brick. So, in 2006, the Brick Industry Association decided to put its money where its mouth was. We built five wall panels with brick and other claddings and conducted ASTM E119 full-scale fire tests. Each panel was 10 feet square and made of two-by-four wood framing.

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CalStar Offers Five New Masonry Shapes CalStar has added several new shapes to its production capabilities, expanding the number of styles available across its lines of sustainably manufactured bricks, pavers and structural units. Many of the new products were developed in response to customer requests. 1 Like all CalStar masonry products, the new shapes are made with a process that incorporates up to 37 percent recycled content and eliminates the need for kiln-firing, typical of traditional clay brick, or the use of Portland cement, used to bind concrete masonry products. 2 As a result, each product requires up to 81 percent less energy to make, while emitting up to 84 percent less CO2. This dramatic reduction in environmental footprint comes with no sacrifice to aesthetics or performance, and the raw material and energy savings actually equate to more affordable 3 per-unit costs, says CalStar. The new shapes, which come in all of CalStar’s available colors, include: 1) Engineer Brick: These 3 5/8- x 2 3/4- x 7 5/8-inch bricks install as quickly as a modular brick, but cover more square feet of wall with the same number of units, lowering installation costs. 3 2) Monarch Brick: This 3 5/8- x 3 5/8- x 15 5/8-inch brick is popular in commercial construction. 3) Full-Height Thru-Wall Units: In response to the success of CalStar’s original halfhigh 8- x 4- x 16-inch and 12- x 4- x 16inch Thru-Wall units, the company now 4 offers an 8- x 8- x 16-inch and a 12- x 8- x 16-inch Thru-Wall unit. Like the original Thru-Wall, these new units combine the structural properties of concrete block with the aesthetics of brick. 4) 12x12 Pavers: Initially produced for the Toyota Center, home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, the nominal 12-inch x 12-inch x 60-mm units module with and are the perfect complement to CalStar’s existing 4- x 8-inch Holland pavers. The pavers feature a smooth finish with chamfered edges.

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Three of those panels were clad with brick. The thinnest brick cladding was only 1 ž-inch thick. And, each of the brick-clad panels withstood a full hour of fire exposure, followed by the standard hose stream test to see if a fire hose would breach the wall. All three brick-clad panels passed the one-hour fire test. Of the other two panels, one was clad with a popular fibercement siding. The other was clad with vinyl siding. Not surprisingly, the vinyl siding panel burned up in about 20 minutes, with flames coming through the wall. The fiber cement siding protected the wood framing a little longer, but the siding itself caught fire www.masonrymagazine.com

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in just a few minutes, and the fire burned through the wall in less than an hour. The lesson here is fairly simple: Brick does not burn, and brick cladding will protect your house from wildfires for at least an hour. Wildfire destruction IN ONLY THE LAST 10 YEARS, there have Shown is a building ravaged by fire, brick walls still standing. been massive wildfires in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas that destroyed thousands of Brick also adds to property values of entire neighborhoods. homes. One fire in Bastrop, Texas, in 2010 destroyed more than That is why many cities are adopting masonry ordinances. Those 1,300 homes. But among those thousands were some houses that allow lesser claddings soon find that their tax revenues dwinclad with brick that survived, because the brick would not burn. dle as property values fall, relative to other cities that require at People love to get back to nature, and that includes building least 75 percent of each house to be clad with brick or other houses in more remote settings with trees and other natural cover. masonry products. But, when people live in the woods, it only makes sense to provide Our country is slowly emerging from five years of the greatest protection from the greatest enemy of those woods – wildfires. recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. As the economy continues to be rebuilt, people finally are beginning to build a A choice and an opportunity significant number of new homes throughout the country. As SO WHY DOESN’T EVERYONE build houses with brick? members of the building industry, it makes a lot of sense to proThat is a good question. Brick has far less maintenance than mote brick cladding on new houses and other structures. The other claddings, which disintegrate in sunlight and must be superior fire protection, low maintenance, durability and quality painted regularly. Brick and quality mortar will last for hunof genuine fired clay brick should be insisted upon by homeowndreds of years without attention. Brick costs a little more, but it ers and new home buyers. �MAS adds so much value to a home that it will sell quicker and for a John Swink, PE, LEED-AP is technical services engineer for Acme Brick Co., Fort Worth, Texas. higher price than lesser houses.

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University of Oklahoma’s Headington Hall

H >>> PROJECT DETAILS Construction Start: May 2011 Construction Completed: June 2013 Construction Manager: Flintco, LLC. Oklahoma City, Ok. Construction Cost: $54 million Masonry Cost: $4.6 million Masonry Contractor: Sun Valley Masonry, Phoenix, Ariz. Brick Manufacturer: Acme Brick Cast Stone Fabricator: Oberfield Precast, Phoenix, Arix. Architect of Record: Studio Architecture P.C., Oklahoma City, Okla.

eadington Hall is the culmination of five years of planning, design and construction

of a new residential hall for the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The building was privately financed by the Intercollegiate Athletics Department to be a new home for student athletes (49% of the occupants), with the rest of the population to be general students. This six-level, 230,000-square-foot facility provides 384 dormitory beds, academic commons, a dining hall with a private dining room, a game room, media commons, a formal living room and a 75-seat theater. A mixed-use facility, retail space is located on the ground floor as well. The sixth level houses a banquet room with large pre-function spaces, a catering kitchen and an exclusive club room. The building design was generated by Studio Architecture P.C., located in Oklahoma City, Okla., and consulting architect Newman Architects LLC of New Haven, Conn. University project manager, Dennis Glover, and the director of architectural & engineering services, Michael Moorman, required that the architecture be compatible with the historic “Cherokee Gothic” buildings on campus. This meant designing a masonry veneer of brick and cast stone. Studio Architecture began working with construction manager Flintco LLC’s Oklahoma City office under the project management of Kirk Mammen to adhere to budget and schedule constraints. During the bidding on the masonry work, great concern over the cost of the work and the quality of the masonry subcontractor was voiced.

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Robert “Ducky” Baum Born Jan. 18, 1942, Robert “Ducky” Baum grew up on a small farm near Morton, Ill. As a young man, Ducky and his family worked hard milking cows by hand, tending to the chickens, pigs, sheep and 40 acres of tillable ground. Ducky’s father, a German immigrant, began a small masonry business to help feed his growing family, today known as Otto Baum Co. Inc. Each of four Baum boys – Mel, Wayne, Ducky and Kenny – worked in the masonry business with their father during the summer months. Each started as a laborer tending bricklayers and, eventually, enlisted in the bricklayer apprenticeship program. Around 1955, it became obvious that the small family farm would not support the needs of the growing Baum family. More emphasis was placed on the masonry operation, which had grown to between 10 and 15 employees. In 1956, after completing four years in the U..S. Navy, Mel began to take over management operations of the masonry business, with assistance from his father, Otto, and his three brothers. Within five years, the company grew from 15 employees doing primarily residential masonry to more than 100 employees performing larger commercial projects. As each of the brothers became fully engaged in the business and estimating support staff members were hired, the company grew to more than 300 employees, offering concrete services as well. In 1969, Mel headed up the concrete division, Wayne had started a small general contracting division, and Ducky had taken over management of the masonry operations, assisted by Kenny. During the next eight years, the company grew. In 1982, with the potential growth opportunities in the Southwest and a stillchallenging economy in the Midwest, Ducky moved to Phoenix to head up the

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field operations and Kenny took over the Illinois masonry operations with Kurt Baum, Mel’s son, assisting. Ducky worked with Ken Nessler who, in 1978, had secured work and formed a crew of masons and laborers in Phoenix. After overcoming a serious spinal injury, Ken took over all the estimating, marketing, and office administrational duties of the company and a became a key component to the success of Sun Valley Masonry (SVM). During the next 26 years, Ducky and Ken Nessler and their team experienced tremendous growth in Arizona, before the economy hit the brakes in 2008. During their 26-year growth period, Sun Valley Masonry employed as many as 700 employees and has maintained the rank of the largest mason contractor in Arizona for more than consecutive 18 years. Ducky and the SVM team in Arizona decided to target some projects in the Oklahoma City area in 2009. Building on the experience and quality of SVM, Ducky and the team were able to secure work in a challenging economy and begin operations in Oklahoma City and surrounding communities. Since 2009, SVM has performed more than $12 million in masonry work within the Oklahoma market. In August 2012, SVM officially opened a third office in Stillwater, Okla. Robert “Ducky” Baum has excelled from those early years on the farm and the lessons taught by his parents. He has persevered to maintain Christian values and a good work ethic, and to treat people fairly and respectfully, while providing a tremendous product to the customers he serves.

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Glazed Brick and Thin Brick Seneca Tiles Inc. has a new division specifically designed to serve the masonry industry: GlazedBrick. Based in Attica, Ohio, the GlazedBrick division offers a glazed color surface on any brick manufacturer’s fired body, in sizes ranging from modular to utilities, or even larger, and either molded or extruded. Also offered is the option of glazing a brick manufacturer’s thin brick. Accessing Seneca Tiles’ 30+ years of glazing experience in its tile and thin brick lines, architects and consumers now can have an opportunity to customize any project with a colorful glazed brick for either accents or solid walls. From uniform opaque colors to highly variegated shades in matte, gloss or translucent; multi-colored blends; or just a beautiful clear glaze, the options are endless. For more information, visit www.senecatiles.com. On bid day, Sun Valley Masonry out of Phoenix, Ariz., was the low bidder. From Day 1, Sun Valley Masonry had a vision of what this project was going to be. Under the management of Robert “Ducky” Baum, president/owner; Don Voight, stone operations/coordination; and Jonathan Stone, onsite superintendent, the project started to become a reality. All the precast stone elements were engineered and fabricated at Oberfield Precast and coordinated by Randy Wheelis. Unique shapes and huge pieces of stone were needed, including four eight-feet-thick x 20-feet-tall pointed arches at the main entry of the building, and soaring gothic spires. Ducky Baum oversaw all of the actual construction and quality assurance, assuring everything was constructed properly. The building also was mandated to achieve a LEED certification, so the veneer detailing was designed with continuous cavity insula-

tion using adjustable relief angle anchors at each of the floor lines holding the relief angle off the structure. This would allow the insulation to run uninterrupted, except for the anchorage points, effectively thermally isolating the veneer from the rest of the structure and building envelope. The entire masonry veneer took 15 months to complete with more than one million modular bricks, hand set with cast accents, and four-story-tall cast bay windows around the building perimeter that had exacting tolerances. The overall impact of Headington Hall, both functionally and architecturally, will reinforce the continued recruitment and attraction of top academic talent as well as high-performing student athletes. Upon completion, Headington Hall assumed its place on the university among the other distinguished building on campus. Sun Valley Masonry has since completed top-notch renovations to the baseball and football stadiums. ❙MAS Patrick Schoenfeldt is an architect with Studio Architecture P.C. in Oklahoma City, Okla. He can be reached at pschoenfeldt@studioarc.com.

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Zach Everett

SAFETY IS AN ISSUE THAT MATTERS, not only because of the obvious threat of loss of life, but also because of the financial wake of any serious accident on the jobsite. Masonry wanted to get the real scoop on this issue from an expert with firsthand knowledge. We talked to Zach Everett, corporate safety director of Brazos Masonry in Waco, Texas, which employs about 200 employees on average. Brazos typically takes on any size job, but they go after the bigger ones: highrises, stadiums, schools and hospitals. Following is what Everett had to say about the state and importance of safety on the masonry jobsite. Masonry: Explain why safety compliance is so important on the jobsite. Zach Everett: Lives are on the line. Thousands of people are killed every year on jobsites in the United States, alone, and who knows how many workers die in other countries – especially in underdeveloped countries. Life is precious. When a person dies, it affects families in the worst kind of way. Yes, financially, but so, so much more. Losing a spouse, a Mommy or Daddy, or a child who has just reached adulthood is among the worst things a person can experience in life. The emotional damage and consequent changes can very often ruin one’s life. I still am talking about safety being important on a jobsite. These men and women are not numbers in a system or some expendable commodities. They are our family, friends and neighbors with a heart and soul. Once, we built buildings and bridges knowing that so many people would die during the construction. It was a cost of doing business. God forbid that anyone still thinks that way, but how many even still have that mindset about injuries? “Accidents just happen…oh, well, hope he gets better one day.” Shame on us, if that is the case. A back injury can affect a person the rest of his life, including how he will earn a living and quality of life at home. Masonry: What are the insurance considerations for mason contractors? Everett: Insurance companies are not charitable organizations. They are in business to make money, and, if they are not making money by carrying a mason contractor, they only have two choices. They can raise their premiums or drop the insured. Neither is where a contractor wants to be. The more injuries a contractor has, the more the insurance company must pay out in medical, lost-time benefits and legal costs. All those chickens come home to roost in one way or another – and, actually, in several ways – not just indirect costs. These claims also drive a company’s EMR, which customers look at in the bidding process and can cause a mason not to get a job. 22

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A mason with a good safety program can turn all this on its head. Because insurance companies are in business to make money, if you can save that company money, it will compete for your business. The companies will drop premiums and/or give dividend payments back to the company, like ours does, and the contractor’s EMR drops to make you look like “the man with the plan” on bid day. Masonry: Touch on OSHA and how to survive random (or planned) visits from OSHA. Everett: Surviving an OSHA inspection starts about 10 years before the inspection. If you don’t have a good safety program, OSHA can find lots and lots to cite; it just depends how hard they decide look. A good safety program, such as promoted by the MCAA, includes a detailed, written plan that includes all the essential particulars surrounding the hazards employees face or may face doing their jobs. A good plan also includes training according to the hazards faced, disciplinary policy and more. Normally what happens is that an OSHA inspector drives by and sees an employee in a hazard. They stop on the side of the road, take pictures, and then go to the jobsite office to do an inspection. Sometimes an inspection is the result of a complaint called in to the OSHA office, or they see something on the news that looks inspection worthy. It also could be a self-reporting of three or more employees injured in an incident or a fatality (which must be reported within eight hours of occurrence). To survive, do the hard work. Have the plan, train your people and if/when they don’t follow it, re-train them. If that doesn’t work, then they probably aren’t cut out for a company that cares about safety. If the OSHA man never sees a hazard, it’s likely you’ll never be cited. Masonry: Explain the importance of using the proper clothing, equipment and fall protection. Everett: Masons are exposed to more fall hazards than most other trades. We put the skin on the building and if that skin goes

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300 feet in the air, so do we. Having good scaffolding is probably the biggest asset. When scaffold doesn’t cover it, then a PFAS (personal fall arrest system – a harness and lanyard) must be used and attached to a proper anchorage point. Whether it is the scaffolding or the PFAS, it must be in proper condition. If a handrail doesn’t hold the 200 pounds it is supposed to, when the man falls against it, it fails. He never goes home again. If a harness is torn, or worn anyway, and the person falls, it fails. He falls to the ground as well. Proper inspection of all these fall protection tools is a must. If it is not in good condition, then we look unprofessional; we can be cited by OSHA; and someone could be severely injured or even die – simply because we didn’t assure it could do its job. Masonry: How do you get your foremen and contractors to use all of the proper safety attire and equipment? Everett: Training, training, training. Rare men are they who can be told once to do something, and they do so forever after. People must be convinced that it best for them, and there is no other choice. Logic and reason must be used, because our supervisors are intelligent people. Communicating the misery and broken hearts and dreams that result from accidents it needed, because our supervisors are human and can be touched by emotion. Finally, they must know that it is a condition of employment. All these facets should be at work continually and, soon, they will be preaching your sermon. Masonry: Discuss how the MCAA views the issue of safety on the jobsite. Everett: Safety is simmering to the surface around here at the MCAA more and more. Whether through questions from members; via compliance issues such as the new silica standard that is rolling out; or just by trying to make life easier for members by offering the free resources like safety meetings, videos, etc., there is always something to handle, that is for sure. Safety in the work place in not going away. It is growing bigger and more important. Trying to fly under the radar is not a good plan. It won’t win any friends, and it could get people killed in the process. Working safety is a lifestyle – a culture where unsafe acts are looked at like a two-headed foreman. Commit to it, and we’ll all be the better for it. �MAS Zach Everett is corporate safety director of Brazos Masonry, www.brazosmasonry.com. Contact him at 254.848.5830 or zeverett@brazosmasonry.com.

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A Work in Progress By David Biggs, P.E., S.E. Graphics courtesy of Tradesmen’s Software Inc .

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IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE THE IDEA OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING – MASONRY (BIM-M) WAS CONCEIVED, and what it means is still evolving. For many, BIM is 3D modeling taken to the extreme. For others, BIM is a process of designing, constructing and maintaining buildings that is all about information transfer and risk management. BIM-M is all of these applied to masonry buildings. Year one (2012) of BIM-M meant planning and assessment. An outstanding Executive Committee of masonry industry leaders took bold steps into the digital arena. Each envisioned a better masonry industry and what BIM-M could do to make that happen. Georgia Institute of Technology was selected as lead consultant under the guidance of international experts Charles (Chuck) Eastman (charles.eastman@coa.gatech.edu) and Russell Gentry (russell.gentry@coa.gatech.edu) of the Digital Building Laboratory. Industry experts offered their advice and input. The result of all that planning was the development of a roadmap (http://bimformasonry.org/phase-i-roadmap). 24

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Year two (2013) brought great activity. Major fundraising was initiated with a challenging goal of $2.5 million. The list of sponsors has grown, the Canadian masonry industry joined the initiative, and the Charles F. Pankow Foundation became a strategic partner. The Masonry Society became the home for the BIM-M architectural and structural modeling working groups. The projects of the roadmap have taken shape. Project managers from the masonry industry were selected to work with BIM consultants and contracts signed. A website was started (www.BIMforMasonry.org), and plans were begun for 2014. Where are we now? There are four active major projects from the roadmap and several smaller ones that help with promotion. Project 1 – Masonry Unit Model Definition AS PROJECT MANAGER, JEFF ELDER of Interstate Brick (jeff.elder@interstatebrick.com) has surveyed many manufacturers and suppliers of concrete masonry, clay brick and cast stone for attributes of their materials and is now planning to do similar work with the stone industry. Consultant Georgia Tech will spend 2014 developing a digital data structure for masonry units that can be used by software developers. Third-party software vendors will be encouraged to develop the data structure and provide plug-ins to BIM software. Future projects will expand into incorporating masonry accessories. Project 2 – BIM-M Benchmark I, DAVID BIGGS, as project manager, and consultant Georgia Tech began a round of meetings with leading BIM software developers. Three sample masonry buildings were selected: one loadbearing CMU, one veneer and metal studs, and one frame building with CMU back-up and veneer. These buildings will be modeled using existing BIM software to assess opportunities for further inclusion of masonry into existing BIM software. Georgia Tech will shadow a mason contractor through construction of an actual project to assess work processes with a goal of developing digital standards. Additional meetings are being held with consultants and experts who offer masonry BIM services now. Their expertise will be invaluable in assessing the needs of contractors and designers. Project 3 - Masonry Wall Model Definition JAMIE DAVIS of Ryan-Biggs Associates (jdavis@ryanbiggs.com) as project manager, and working group leaders Maria Viteri of the International Masonry Institute (mviteri@ imiweb.org) and Tomas Amor of Target Corp. (tomas.amor@ target.com), have been extremely active. They have defined various typical wall systems. Georgia Tech as consultant will be developing a digital data structure for use with commercial software. The working groups also are developing masonryspecific information on desired “Level of Development” (LOD). In BIM terminology, LOD determines what level of detail or information is required at each phase of a project. www.masonrymagazine.com

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Once these projects are completed, the architectural and structural groups will be moving on to additional tasks related to integration of software with BIM-M. Project 4 – Construction Activities DARRELL MCMILLIAN of the Masonry Institute of St. Louis (misldarrell@ sbcglobal.net) as project manager has taken on the task of interacting with contractor groups. BIM-M has working groups for construction activities and construction management that are combined to define the needs of the masons in the construction process. The BIM-M effort will seek to translate those needs into the BIM-M process by integrating such topics as scheduling, estimating, site coordination, safety planning, equipment and tools, material delivery and more. Darrell and BIM-M can be seen at World of Concrete/World of Masonry, Construct 2014, and various contractor meetings in the United States and Canada gathering input. Working group members will be meeting digitally on conference calls and surveys. An industry consultant has not yet been selected to assist in the process. However, this activity may continue into 2016.

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Cloud-Based Equipment Management Software Construction software provider Dexter + Chaney has released an equipment management solution for contractors with features for preventive maintenance, equipment tracking, and a mobile app. The software works with the company's Spectrum Construction Software, which works completely in the cloud, requiring no software download or specific hardware devices. Dexter + Chaney said it enlisted the expertise and best practices of Dr. Mike Vorster of Virginia Tech. The latest updates to Dexter + Chaney’s equipment management offerings also include an app that can be downloaded for use on Apple and Android mobile devices. The app allows field staff to enter equipment information from the jobsite and synchronizes automatically with Spectrum Equipment Management. For more information, visit www.dexterchaney.com.

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Another project within Project 4 is the Education program. Art Theusch of Collaborative Consulting Group (art.theusch@collaborativecg.com) is the lead consultant and I am project manager. Art is tasked with developing an educational program targeted at masons and contractors but will be useful to all. One module that should prove quite useful includes the use of smart phones, tablets and apps to assist the masonry industry with daily project tasks. The education program is slated for introduction in 2014. Summary THERE IS MUCH ACTIVITY in the development of BIM-M. One thing we have learned is that there are many individuals and companies who have been involved for years, creating BIM-like solutions for masonry at the design and construction levels. Some have joined the BIMM initiative and offered their expertise. We welcome their input! The process of creating BIM-M version 1 is likely to go into 2017 or 2018. Until then, BIM-M efforts are channeled into digitally improving masonry design and construction at all levels. In 2015, there will be a symposium that assesses progress and realigns the remaining projects based upon the first three years of work. For further information, visit www.BIMforMasonry.org. â?™MAS David Biggs is masonry industry coordinator for BIM-M. You can contact him at biggsconsulting@att.net.

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F U L L C O N TA CT P R O J E C T M A N A G E M E N T

By “Coach” Gary Micheloni

Star Leadership:

A Model for Contractors You can tell something about the greatness of a person by studying his life: Did he walk the walk, or was he just a “talker?” Leaders aren’t born; they are made. When made correctly, it’s obvious to all. Gerald Francis Coleman, “Jerry” to millions of baseball and sports fans around the country, was not just appreciated. He was in the category of beloved. Revered. Iconic. But a leader? How did that happen? How was he made into a leader, and why does it matter to us today? Jerry was more than just the announcer of the San Diego Padres. Prior, he had been a player with the New York Yankees for nine seasons, the MVP of the 1950 World Series, and won six World Series as a member of one of the strongest teams ever in MLB history. All that aside, he did not think twice about cutting his career short when called to re-join the US Marine Corps as an aviator in Korea. He flew a total of 120 combat missions, split evenly between World War II and Korea. He retired as a Lt. Colonel, and as the only Major League player to have actively served in both of those wars. Jerry walked the walk. Along the way, surviving those combat missions, he once flew through exploding wreckage directly in front of him – previously the plane of his best friend. One time, he aborted a takeoff, choosing to land his fully loaded airplane, instead of first jettisoning his bombs, due to concern for those on the ground. Upon crashing, he was nearly killed, and was revived by a Navy Corpsman.

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Oh, yes. Jerry was very much the leader. Combat tested in war, and tested by public opinion over the decades spent as a player and broadcaster. Interestingly, Jerry passed away the same day that one of my mentors, “Coach” Kenneth, reminded a group of us about the lessons of leadership that come by faith. Coach Kenneth cautioned us to know the difference between faith and foolishness, and to walk by faith. That is, to not only see the obvious between here and the corner, for instance, but to have a good idea of what’s around the corner, and move toward it aggressively. Never foolishly! As Jerry Coleman saw his friend’s plane explode in front of him, his training kicked in. He knew exactly what to do, evaluated the possibilities, flew through it, and completed his mission. Same with how he handled the aborted takeoff. In a split second, he ran the scenarios through his mind, made a decision, and then executed it. In both cases, he saw not only the obstacle, but also what was around the corner from the obstacle. As Coach Kenneth would say, “Faith does not cancel out foolishness.” Your faith requires you to do a matching action: See the choices, make a decision, and then take passionate and aggressive action. What can we take from these lessons of heroic actions by great leaders, and apply to our own businesses? We can begin with good training and the faith that can come from it. You show this every day you send out your crews to work on a project. You know how they were trained. You have faith that they will “accomplish the mission,” even if something unexpected comes up or goes wrong on the jobsite. As I write this, the “enemy” is still out there: the same dreadful economy that has been sabotaging prosperity in our industry

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JERRY C OLEMAN S AYS: “There are only two important things in life: the people who you love and who love you, and your country.” for several years now. The MCAA is kind of like our industry’s air traffic controller. It’s surveying the entire country, and seeing what is coming over the horizon at us from around the corner, if you will. This year, let’s be especially mindful of leaders important to our own lives, realizing that they have been placed there for a reason. Likewise, the mantle of leadership is upon you as you captain your own fleet. I don’t know everything, but I do know this: Trust your training, keep the faith, and love your family and your country. Love the fact that you are still free enough to own and run your business. And may this be the year that your business gets to hang its own “star” on a little more success. ❙MAS Gary Micheloni is a construction company marketer, working project manager, speaker, author, consultant and coach. Copyright 2014 Gary Micheloni

COACH GARY’S CORNER: What’s your plan to move forward in 2014? Are you marketing your company and driving business to it, or are you just hoping that you’ll run into some? Need to learn more about lead generation to bring you more business? Easy! Just write Coach Gary at FullContactTeam@gmail.com and type Lead Gen into the subject line. We’ll get that info right out to you. Business development & marketing coaching will help you become more successful, in less time, and with more success. Ask Coach Gary to speak for your group, association or convention, or even to coach your company. Coach Gary’s first book, “Get Paid for a Change!” is available at Amazon.com. Pick it up there; change your business. The Voice of the Masonry Industry

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MCAA Now Accepting 2014 TEAM Awards Submissions Project submission is available for the MCAA’s Tribute to Exemplary Achievements in Masonry (TEAM) Awards. Mason contractors realize that quality masonry projects are the result of strong creative vision and skilled execution. The purpose of the TEAM Awards is to give recognition to these projects and members of the construction team for outstanding accomplishments in masonry design and construction. All mason contractors or architects may submit a project. Masonry must be the dominant material used in the project. Any work completed and landscaped between Jan. 1, 2010, and Dec. 31, 2013, is eligible to be entered. Projects under construction or not landscaped will be disqualified. Award categories include: • Commercial • Education: K-8 • Education: 9-12 • Education: College/University • Government • Industrial • Institutional • Landscape/Hardscape • Rehabilitation/Restoration • Residential: Single Family • Residential: Multi Family • Block (projects must be at least 65% block) • Lighweight Block (projects must use lightweight CMU) • LEED (projects must be LEED certified) Submissions must be received by April 30, 2014. Judging will take place June 3, 2014. Winners will be awarded at the TEAM Awards Program on Sept. 10, 2014, at the MCAA Midyear Meeting in Milwaukee. Awards will be presented to the mason contractor, general contractor, architect, masonry supplier, and building owner. Visit www.masoncontractors.org/team for complete competition rules. 2014 Vision Award Nominations Open Do you know an architect, community, school district, or university that has demonstrated outstanding use of masonwww.masonrymagazine.com

ry in their projects over the years? If so, nominate them to be considered for a Vision Award. The Vision Awards celebrate architects, communities, school districts, or universities that incorporate masonry in their projects. To submit an entry, simply visit www.masoncontractors.org/team and complete the nomination form including a short essay on how the architect, community, school district, or university has used masonry in their projects and why they should be considered for an award. Nominations are open to everyone and multiple submissions will be accepted. Winners will be recognized during the TEAM Awards reception on Sept. 10, 2014, at the MCAA Midyear Meeting in Milwaukee. Nominations can be made online at www.masoncontractors.org/team. Entries will be accepted until Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Tim O’Toole, director of marketing, education, and IT for MCAA

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LATICRETE Acquires L&M Construction Chemicals LATICRETE International Inc., a manufacturer of construction solutions for the building industry, has acquired L&M Construction Chemicals Inc. The acquisition will provide LATICRETE customers access to new products and technologies, while expanding the company’s presence in the restoration and decorative concrete category. L&M produces a line of concrete construction chemicals. Integration of manufacturing, sales and service functions will occur throughout 2014. During the last two years, LATICRETE has expanded its restoration and decorative product line through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, including the 2011 acquisition of Drytek Flooring Solutions and formation of the LATICRETE SUPERCAP joint venture. L&M manufactures and sells concrete construction chemicals including coatings, sealers, construction

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grouts, patch and repair mortars as well as color hardeners for polished concrete. Under the new ownership of LATICRETE, the L&M brand and product portfolio will leverage the many resources and opportunities LATICRETE offers, including manufacturing facilities; an expanded team of sales representatives; LATICRETE’s global research and development capabilities; marketing and technical services; access to global markets; an enhanced architectural presence; and access to LATICRETE’s distribution system.

In Memoriam: Oscar Lloyd Jollay, Founder of OL Jollay Masonry O. L. (Lloyd) Jollay, founder of O. L. Jollay Masonry, passed away Dec. 7 in Atlanta, six days following his 90th birthday. Lloyd was born Dec. 1, 1923, in Dillard, Ga., the eldest son of Oscar Leonard Jollay and Annie Grist Jollay. He attended Rabun Gap High School (now Rabun Gap Nacoochee School) graduating in 1940. During World War II, Lloyd served in the Army Signal Corp, rank of Master Sergeant, as a telephone and telegraph wire chief. After the war, he met and married Margaret O. Jollay. Together, they came to Atlanta, where Lloyd attended Georgia Tech, majoring in industrial engineering. After college, Lloyd was employed with American Fireproofing, one of the first commercial masonry contracting firms in Georgia. In 1957, Lloyd opened his own masonry contracting business in Avondale Estates, Ga. Over the past 50 years the firm has expanded and completed projects in seven Southeastern states. Lloyd was a member of the Masonry Contracting Association of America and served as both president of the State Association and president of the TriState Region. Lloyd has been a member of the First United Methodist Church in Atlanta since the late-1940s. Lloyd and Margaret loved their church and the MACO Sunday School class, where Lloyd served as president of the MACO class and on the Administrative Board of

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New Members The Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA) is proud to welcome the following new members to the Association. The MCAA would like to thank them for joining their fellow mason contractors nationwide in helping to build a strong and successful masonry industry.

for February 2014 Domicile Consulting Chicago, IL 312-488-1461 www.domicileconsulting.com Chapter Associate Member

Masonry Builders, Inc. Tampa, FL 813-286-4707 www.masonrybuilders.com Contractor Member

Seneca Tiles, Inc. Attica, OH 800-426-4335 www.senecatiles.com Regional Associate Member

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First Methodist. Lloyd and Margaret enjoyed spending time with friends and family at their cabin on Lake Lanier and at their home in Naples, Fla., until her death in December 1986. Lloyd and his second wife, Betty Edgar, spent time traveling until her death in February 2006. Lloyd is survived by three children David L. Jollay (Cindy), Thomas L. Jollay (Kathy), Anne J. Landers (Jerry); six grandchildren: Mayer J. Buisson (Beau), Lauren J. Gray (Mark), Meredith J. Roberts (Johnathan), Matthew B. Jollay, Margaret L. Graton (Jason) and K. Morgan Landers; two great-grandsons: Ryan Gray and David Roberts and one great grand-daughter on the way. The Voice of the Masonry Industry

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Spillman Farmer Completes Lafayette College Arts Plaza The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Pennsylvania Chapter awarded a 2013 Citation of Merit to the recently completed Lafayette College Arts Plaza in Easton, Pa. Spillman Farmer Architects (SFA) of Bethlehem, Pa., served as the project’s architect. The Citation of Merit recognizes projects that represent excellence through exceptional details or special design aspects. The Arts Plaza was also awarded a Special Mention in the Architecture + Urban Transformation category in the 2013 Architizer A+ Awards. The $1.7 million, 7,000-square-foot Arts Plaza is an open-air space for the arts at Lafayette College. The project transformed a former auto-repair facility into an outdoor teaching space that responds to its natural environment and built context. Spillman Farmer’s work for the college started when the school began to grow beyond its confines and into Easton’s downtown. Biondo began working with the college in early-2000 to design the Williams Visual Arts Building. Following this project and several smaller planning and building stabilization assignments throughout the arts campus, Spillman Farmer and the college focused on the adjacent garage. At its core, the project is a distillation of the existing structure. The Arts Plaza introduces new materials, such as brick and steel, in unconventional ways. The plaza’s masonry walls are clad with clinker brick, a cast off of the brickmaking process, whose curvature and malformations are accented, rather than minimized. The brick’s curvature and

New masonry monoliths express the plaza’s streetfront and create a rhythm and scale that echo the neighboring Williams Visual Arts Building. Photo by Barry Halkin Photography, courtesy of Spillman Farmer Architects www.masonrymagazine.com

Another Lesson from the Great Recession and a Car CONTRACTOR TIP OF THE MONTH Without a “treasure chest,” we are all just one bad job away from going out of business. It is your safety net, your peace of mind, your stress reliever, so you can sleep at night. Yes, it’s your guardian angel! Working summers on a produce farm beginning at 9 years old, I always had money in my pocket at school. Even though dad kept telling me to save part of my money for hard times, I blew every dime on bikes, go-karts, potato chips, pop and Chef Boyardee pizzas. Man, life was good! During those times of boyhood excesses, I was invincible. Riding as fast as the wind, I never thought should I break a leg or get injured, with no treasure chest I would go from one of the wealthiest kids in class to the poorest as I would have no ability to continue earning. I got a few scrapes, nothing serious, and I kept on spending. When I turned 16, like the rest of my friends, I wanted to buy a car. With virtually no savings to purchase what I wanted, I ended up buying a $50 Ford Maverick my friends rightfully dubbed the “Blue Beater.” At the same time, one of my best friends, Brad Schott, purchased and drove a snazzy Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. I was envious of Brad, who also had worked through school but, unlike me, saved and had a treasure chest he used to purchase a really nice car. As embarrassing as it was idling at a stoplight next to the Supreme, what a great lesson I learned on saving for the future. At 19, I started Lang Masonry Contractors. All the while, Dad was still preaching to me to save for hard times. He would say, “Keep one foot on the ground son as hard times are coming. You just don’t know it yet.” I started to listen and tucked away much of my earnings throughout the years. With my investments succeeding, all of a sudden, I had over $1 million in savings. When my company would hit a bad job or two, and one of my managers would voice concern, and I would tell him or her, “It’s okay, I have a million-dollar club we can use to club our way out of hard times.” The beater Maverick flashing through my mind, I’d nod my head and smile. The million-dollar club continued to grow as did the size of Lang investments and companies. Then, the Great Recession hit and, soon, that million-dollar club became a $6 claw hammer we used to claw our way out from the verge of collapse of the total empire we had built. Had it not been for the “Treasure Chest” or the “Million Dollar Club” being in place, after 25 years of hard work building the companies, they would have crashed. My companies would not have survived the Great Recession. During the difficult times, I confided in a friend who had been in business for more than 30 years and was going through a similar situation. He asked me if I knew what real stress was. “What?” I asked, curious of his slant. He said, “Real stress is when you don’t have enough savings to pay your bills during a slow period.” It’s time for me to rebuild my treasure chest to avoid that stress coming near my life again. Whether you own a business or not, you need a “Treasure Chest” as hard times will eventually come your way. Many business books will tell you to save 10 percent of your annual earnings solely for hard times. Then, you should maintain 10 percent of your annual sales in your “Treasure Chest.” Therefore, if you do $5 million in sales, you should have a minimum of $500,000 in your chest. Although many of us are battered and bruised by the storms of the Great Recession, it is good to still be standing. It is also a blessing to get another opportunity to do it all again, while being equipped with lessons learned. One thing I know for sure is that more hard times are coming, we just don’t know when yet. When they do, I hope you and I have our “Treasure Chests” in place, so we can get through them. Damian Lang owns and operates four companies in Ohio. He is the inventor of the Grout Hog – Grout Delivery System, Mud Hog mortar mixers, Hog Leg wall-bracing system and several other labor-saving devices used in the masonry industry. He is the author of the book “RACE—Rewarding And Challenging Employees for Profits in Masonry.” He writes for Masonry Magazine each month and consults with many of the leading mason contractors in the country. All rights reserved, © 2014 Damian Lang, President of Lang Masonry Contractors, Inc., and EZ Grout Corp.

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IN D U S T RY N E W S MCAA Certification imperfections provide texture and counterbalance the well-organized, restrained space. The 3,200-square-foot, clinker-clad walls are 29 feet high. The project features 30,000 Mohawk clinker bricks manufactured by Colonial Brick. The Mohawk bricks are four inches wide, 2 ¼ inches high, and eight inches long. The Mazella Group served as the mason contractor. Inside the plaza, the design team repaired and refinished the concrete floor slab. The engineers calculated loads where the new steel armatures had to rest on the concrete floor, ensuring the structural integrity of the slab and the arched structure below. New masonry monoliths express the plaza’s streetfront. These obelisks rely only on the traditional craft of stacking brick to create openings and provide a structural, sculptural form. In contrast to the existing timber structure, new structural steel elements between the monoliths provide a scale and presence appropriate to the plaza’s urban context. These masonry columns and steel elements work together to create a rhythm at the street edge. Their scale and material echo the neighboring Williams Visual Arts Building. Their spacing continues the street’s rhythm, while creating openness and inviting movement into the plaza. The project incorporates two cubic structural steel armatures, each draped with a veil of stainless-steel mesh. These transparent, ghost-like structures complement the masonry monoliths and reflect the dimensions and rhythm of windows of the nearby Williams Building. The delicate details of the steel mesh, carefully lit at night and adorned with climbing vegetation, organically complete the forms and bring a natural softness to the hard-edged, industrial streetfront. This effect is reinforced in the winter, when ice and snow build up on the mesh. The X-TEND stainless steel cable mesh fabric presented a challenge to the construction team. The X-TEND system features AISI 316 stainless steel cables and seamless ferrules, which create a metal fabric that forms a diamond pattern as it is installed. The armatures, fabricated and erected by McGregor Industries of Dunmore, Pa., feature 32 tons of steel, mainly W8 x 28s structural steel members. 34

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How to Prepare a Professional Masonry Submittal Package

Brick: Efflorescence, Stains and Cleaning

ONLINE Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices

Discipline: Masonry Products Credits: 1.5

Credits: 1

ONLINE March 12 Basics of Prevailing Wage and the Davis-Bacon Act

Brick: Properties, Shapes and Sizes Discipline: Masonry Products Credits: 3

ONLINE Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices

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Brick: Veneer Wall Systems Discipline: Masonry Products Credits: 1.5

March 20 Occupational Safety Management (NCMCA Mod 1)

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MCAA Safety Forum - Creating and Maintaining a Safety Culture

Credits: 4

Discipline: Safety Credits: 1

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March 26 The New Rules of Relationship Marketing

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ONLINE Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices

Introduction to Movement Joints for Masons

Credits: 1

Credits: 1

Discipline: Codes & Standards Available until March 6

April 30 Basic Masonry Estimating Seminar

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ONLINE Discipline: Bidding Practices

Discipline: Masonry Products

Credits: 6

Available until March 13

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Reducing Labor Costs, Bid Costs and Employee Benefit Costs on Government Work

MCAA Safety Forum Scaffold Hazards

ONLINE Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices

Credits: 1

Understanding Masonry Credits: 1

Discipline: Safety Available until March 19

Credits: 1

ONLINE July 16

Basic Masonry Estimating Seminar

Compliance on Prevailing Wage and Davis-Bacon

Discipline: Bidding Practices

ONLINE Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices

Available until March 2

Credits: 6

Credits: 1

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As the project neared completion, the college decided to connect the Williams Building to the Arts Plaza and opted for a new entrance located within the clinker brick-faced side wall. Spillman Farmer created a new opening in an existing corridor inside the Williams Building. The design team used this new, final element of the plaza to introduce a three-dimensional, human-scale element into the wall. The new entrance features a gabled frame constructed entirely of clinker brick. The new opening’s undulating lines highlight the texture and irregularity of the brick. In addition to Spillman Farmer, other project team members included WhitingTurner Contracting Co., construction manager; Lehigh Valley Engineering, electrical engineer; Barry Isett and Associates, structural engineer; and McTish, Kunkel & Associates, civil engineer.

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