Masonry Magazine January 1980 Page.27
Mason Contractor News
# Scaffold Institute Forms
# Engineering Committee
The newly established Forming Section of the Scaffolding, Shoring & Forming Institute (previously the Scaffolding & Shoring Institute) in Cleveland, Ohio, has organized an Engineering Committee to discuss topics pertinent to the design and use of formwork. Among Institute members participating in committee activities is Patent Scaffolding Co.
# AED Annual Meeting
# Slated for New Orleans
The Associated Equipment Distributors, the national trade association for construction equipment distributors and manufacturers, will hold its 1981 annual meeting, January 21-23, in New Orleans, La., in the Marriott Hotel. The meeting will feature CONDEX, the association's Conference, Display and Exhibit Center in the New Orleans Hilton Hotel.
# Earthquake Conference
"Assessing the Hazard-Evaluating the Risk" has been chosen as the theme for the first earthquake conference focusing on the eastern United States. The program will be presented September 14-16, 1981, in Knoxville, Tenn., at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The sponsoring organizations are the Building Seismic Safety Council, Department of Energy, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the Seismological Society of America.
# Jones Named Engineer
# At Michigan Institute
Paul H. Jones, formerly associate civil engineer for the city of Detroit, has been appointed structural engineer of the Masonry Institute of Michigan. A civil engineering graduate of the University of Michigan, Jones served as an instructor in civil engineering at Northwest Technical College in Archbold, Ohio. His background also includes work as a consulting and project engineer in Traverse City, Mich., and as city engineer in Traverse City and Cadillac, Mich.
# M.S. Degree in Historic
# Preservation Offered
The School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon has begun offering a graduate degree in historic preservation, the art of conserving old, enduring buildings for continued use. The two-year master's program will teach architects and art historians about preservation design, construction, technology and documentation as well as the legal and cultural aspects of preserving historic landmarks.
If all the cars in the U.S. were lined up end to end, someone would pull out and try to pass.
# Ramm Brick Makes Management Appointments
Ramm Brick & Materials, Inc., LaGrange, III., has announced three management level appointments. Kent Ramm (far right) is shown congratulating the three appointees (left to right): Aldo Giannini, vice president, Tile Craft Division; James Gillstrom, executive vice president; and William Adamson, vice president, Brick Division.
# AMCA Investments Merger
# Into Koehring Completed
AMCA International Corp. announced effective October 31, 1980 the completion of the merger of AMCA Investments Corp. into Koehring Company. The transaction was approved by the shareholders of Koehring at a special meeting held October 29, 1980. Each share of Koehring common and preferred stock held by the public was converted upon the merger into the right to receive $37 and $50 in cash, respectively. As a result of the merger, Koehring is now a jointly owned subsidiary of Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd. and AMCA Enterprises Corp. becomes an indirectly owned subsidiary of AMCA International Corp. and Dominion Bridge.
# Voss Named Executive
# Director of IMAT
Bruce N. Voss, Ogden, Utah, has been named executive director of the International Masonry Apprenticeship Trust (IMAT). He succeeds Merlin L. Taylor, who resigned to become director of apprenticeship and training for the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen (BAC). A former business agent of Local 6/Utah of BAC and president for five years of the union's Utah State Conference, Voss has had extensive experience in instructing apprentices and in establishing and directing apprentice training courses. Voss became a journeyman bricklayer in 1964 and later served as a foreman. In 1969 he became a bricklayer instructor in the Weber Basin, Utah Job Corps Center, and for the past two years was Western States coordinator for the Job Corps program administered by IMAT.
# Hand Tool Film
# Offered on Free Loan
"Talking Shop," a 1980 production sponsored by the Hand Tools Institute, is a 23-minute, 16mm sound film that effectively presents the dos and don'ts of using hand tools safely at both the professional and consumer levels. The film is available on loan, free of charge. Those interested in borrowing the film should contact Bill Cosmides, Hand Tools Institute, 707 Westchester Ave., White Plains, NY 10604.