Masonry Magazine September 1970 Page. 15
Mason Contractor News
All-brick Highrise goes up in L. A.
Robert F. Dalton has been appointed Director of Labor Relations for the Building Trades Employers' Association. In making the appointment, Norman R. Prusa, Executive Manager of BTEA, stated that Dalton "has come to learn labor and management and the myriad of labor problems which arise in our industry. Of more importance is the fact that he also knows the solutions to these problems."
Over his twenty years with BTEA, Dalton has participated in almost every phase of the Cleveland construction industry. Dalton occupies an advisory position in large-scale negotiations for eighteen craft unions, representing 40,000 construction employees. He also is a part of the contract negotiating committees for seven trades which account for 26,000 tradesmen. In addition, Dalton is active in construction grievance committees, four local and two state joint apprenticeship committees, employee health and welfare programs, and the Construction Section of the Greater Cleveland Safety Council.
The Cumberland Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., has announced the appointment of Charles George as Product Line Manager for their Lox-All Div. Robert L. Green has been named assistant to the group vice president at Kochring. Milwaukee, Wis., according to William H. Bennett, vice president operations, Industrial.
Los Angeles' Largest all-brick office building is Ketchum, Peck & Tooley's 12-story. $8 million Wilshire Plaza, now under construction as a contemporary expression of a traditional idea. Passing along the unusual charcoal brown brick on the sixth floor are (from left) Marvin Botwin, director of operations, and Harry Lewis, president of Hamburger Hamlets, Inc.: William L. Tooley, Jr. and Stuart M. Ketchum, principals in Ketchum, Peck & Tooley; Edwin N. Grant, vice president of California Canadian Bank, and Kennedy B. Galpin, executive vice president of Marsh & McLennan. All will be building occupants.
Ketchum, Peck & Tooley's $8 million, 12-story Wilshire Plaza, now under construction at Wilshire Blvd. and Berendo St., by C L. Peck Contractor, will become Los Angeles' largest all brick office building as well as one of its most distinctive.
Design by Langdon & Wilson Architects, which includes a unique "ves pocket" park, emphasizes the traditional and natural look to blend with Immanuel Presbyterian Church and the Talmadge Apartments at other corners of the intersection, thereby setting the structure apart from the prevalent concrete and curtain-wall type of office building.
The building utilizes an unusual but colorful charcoal brown brick, not only for the exterior but also in the building entrance plaza and lobby, upper floor lobbies, in the four-speed Otis elevators, and even in the adjoining six-story garage building.
The natural rather than covered or painted look will also be carried out in the mansard roof of Cor-Ten steel which will oxidize and age to a rust brown to blend with the brick.
Malcolm H. Allen has been appointed Director of Engineering and Research for the Structural Clay Products Institute, McLean, Virginia. He had served as SCPI's Director of Research since 1966.
In this new post, Allen will serve as coordinator of all research, engineering and technology, and federal construction and government liaison activities for SCPI, the national association of brick manufacturers.
Koehring Company has announced an agreement in principle for the merger of Bopparder Maschinenbaugesellschaft mbH (BOMAG), Boppard/ Rhein, Germany, with Koehring. Orville R. Mertz, president of Koehring, said that under terms of the agreement, BOMAG share owners will exchange their shares for 315,000 shares of Koehring Common and $2,295,000 in cash.