Masonry Magazine January 1971 Page. 35
The Carborundum Co. has named A. Kulju manager of manufacturing in Knoxville, Tenn. Robert L. Purdie, formerly with Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., has joined Pittsburgh Corning Corp. as a marketing research analyst at the Pittsburgh headquarters.
The Construction Industry Advancement Program of Cleveland has donated 500 pairs of safety glasses to apprentices at Max Hayes Trade School. Safety glasses are urgently needed in construction. Statistics show that in Ohio, over a four-year period, there were 2,005 eye injuries compared with 1,004 injuries to head. The need for safety glasses is double that of hard hats.
W. G. Irmscher has been elected vice president of sales, central region, for Medusa Portland Cement Co. He will have responsibility for commercial cement sales in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsylvania, with headquarters in Detroit. R. Sandy Hallman of Garland, president of Hallman & Hallman, Inc., general contractor, has been reelected president of the North Texas Contractors Association. Ernest C. Erickson, of Carl E. Erickson Co., has been installed for his second term as president of the Builders' Association of Chicago, Chicago Chapter of the Association of General Contractors of America. Dixie Construction Co., Inc., has relocated its quarters in Birmingham, Ala., at 2900 S. 18th St., Homewood, Rm. 10-A. The new phone number is (205) 879-3326.
Walt Rothermel has been re-elected President of the Colorado Mason Contractors Association. Other officers elected were Dale Vaughn, President; Don Fair, Secretary-Treasurer; and Dick Armstead and Jack Oberg, Board of Trustees.
Charles T. Richards of the Richards. Brick Co., Edwardsville, III., has been elected President of the Structural Clay Products Institute with William Jones of Boren Clay Products Co., Pleasant Garden, N.C., being selected Vice President. Joseph Patrick remains as Treasurer and Charles Farley was re-elected Secretary. Richard W. Otterson remains as Executive Director. Welton Becket and Associates has marked its tenth year and millionth man hour of its Houston office. George H. Eiser, Jr. has been named a regional manager for the Construction Tools Div., Omark Industries, according to William Thompson, Sales Director.
Women in Construction Occupy New Executive Offices
The National Association of Women in Construction has occupied new national executive offices in Washington, D.C. Shown holding their first meeting there, following the group's recent 15th annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, are the newly elected officers. Left to right are Mrs. Lura Bates, Jackson, Miss., secretary: Mrs. Bonnie Granger, Kansas City, Mo.. president-elect: Mrs. Marie Marshall, Chattanooga, Tenn., president: Marie Oeltjen, Colorado Springs. Colo.. treasurer, and Margaret Borg. Salt Lake City, Utah, immediate past president.
Steel Industry Adopts New Nomenclature
The Now Generation in steel construction speaks a new language. You are suddenly old fashioned if you ask for a steel "I-Beam" or "WF Beam." There is no more "F" in the designation for wide flange structural steel shapes; American Standard beams are now S-Beams, not I-beams; channels and angles now are identified by letters instead of symbols.
These changes result from recommendations by American Iron and Steel Institute's Committee of Structural Steel Producers for standardization of the nomenclature for structural steel shapes. They hope to eliminate slip-ups that might be caused either by use of different nomenclatures by different steel producers or by the use of the wrong nomenclature for some shapes having similar profiles but slightly different dimensions. Computer processing was another important consideration in establishing the new system for steel shape nomenclature.
For instance, the letter "W" now designates all wide flange shapes, including some that once were identified by a "B" in the 6th edition of American Institute of Steel Construction's Manual of Steel Construction. (AISC's new Manual, 7th edition, adheres to the new nomenclature.) A wide flange section that weighs 142 pounds per foot of length and is nominally 14 inches deep and 16 inches across the flanges was described by "14 WF 142" in the old AISC nomenclature. Individual steel producers had other designations. Now, in the new industry-wide nomenclature, such a shape is called "W14x142." American Standard beams, formerly designated by an "I", are now identified by an "S", so that an 18 I 70 beam has become an $18x70 beam.
The capital letter "C" now identifies American Standard channel sections, replacing the confusing square-cornered bracket symbol. And the capital letter "L" designates angle sections. Various Tees, Zees and car building shapes all now have simplified, universal nomenclature. Useful features of the previous system of designations were retained where desirable.
At the same time, AISI's Committee of Steel Plate Producers has adopted a standard dimensional sequence for ordering steel plate. It is: thickness x width x length, with all dimensions in inches, fractions of an inch or decimals of an inch. (Alternatively, thickness may be specified in pounds per square foot.)
AISI's Committee of Structural Steel Producers has printed a quantity of booklets entitled "Standard Nomenclature for Structural Steel Shapes." Copies of the booklet and a sheet describing the new ordering system for steel plate may be obtained by writing to: E. W. Gradt, Staff Representative, Committees of Structural Steel and Steel Plate Producers, American Iron and Steel Institute, 150 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017.