Masonry Magazine April 1962 Page. 8
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Mason Contractor Handles 12,000,000
Bricks and Blocks in Minimum Time
V. S. Wallgren Company, Chic fulfills large masonry contract careful planning and proper mate handling.
On Chicago's South Side, a giant public housing project covering 95 acres is under construction. The project, which will house 27,000 people, is composed of 31 building, twenty-eight of which are high-rise apartments of 16-stories, built of reinforced concrete. The $68% million project is sponsored by the Chicago Housing Authority with federal aid, and covers an area 2 miles long and 14 blocks wide. Approximately 2,000 construction men are working on the job. V. S. Wallgren Company, Ine. is handling the masonry work on the project while Gust K. Newburg Construction Company is the general contractor. The Wallgren firm will place about 17% million bricks and blocks before completion of the contract.
According to Elmer Wirman, secretary and project engineer of Wallgren, the masonry contract is the largest ever let in Chicago. In addition to the 17%½ million bricks and blocks handled, 20 miles of pre-cast sill will be used; 135,000 sacks of cement and lime, and 35 million of sand for mortar.
In six months time, the Wallgren Company ha pleted masonry work on 20 of the 31 buildings a ing this time 12 million bricks and blocks were and put down.
Wallgren president, Ivar Anderson, has pea supervised the masonry work at the job site sis project began. During peak periods, up to 450 were working, putting down 30 carloads of brie week. At times, the masons were working jus below the general contractor's men who were walls, columns and floors. Because one of the ma siderations on a giant project like this is keeping supplied with brick, Anderson had to choose his of supply carefully.
One problem which Anderson solved was the e
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