Masonry Magazine January 1984 Page. 39
Mason Contractor News
# Catani Heads ACI Committee on Masonry
Mario J. Catani, vice president of Dur-O-Wal, Inc., Northbrook, Ill., manufacturer of masonry reinforcement systems, has been appointed chairman of ACI-ASCE Committee 530 on Masonry Structures, American Concrete Institute.
Before joining Dur-O-Wal in 1982, Catani was director of the buildings division of Portland Cement Association.
# People & Events
Fred Beyer is observing 57 years in business as a distributor and installer of glass block under the firm name of Fred Beyer & Co. in Chicago. A recent Beyer project, the Area No. 2 Police Station on Chicago's South Side which won an architectural award from Chicago Chapter AIA, boasts some 54,000 glass block installed by his firm.
William H. Belden Jr. is the new president of Belden Brick Co., Canton, Ohio. He is the fourth generation Belden to hold the presidency in the 98-year-old company. John H. Stewart, a past president of the Structural Clay Products Institute, forerunner of the Brick Institute of America, died August 19 in Canton, Ohio. He was 80.
Portec, Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., has been named Dietrich "Pete" Petersen general manager of its Construction Equipment Division. John L. Crawley has been elevated to president of Genstar Lime Co., San Francisco, Calif. The New York-based architectural firm of Papadatos Moudis Associates P.C. was the recent recipient of the 1983 Society of American Registered Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence for its interior design of Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Newport News, Va.
# Fraser Elected President of IAE Toronto Chapter
W. Neil Fraser, executive director of the Canadian Masonry Contractors Association, has been elected 1983-84 president of the Toronto Chapter of the Institute of Association Executives.
Fraser has been executive director of CMCA since 1971 and has been in the association management field in Canada since 1968.
# Banse Elected V.P. of Seedorff Masonry
Thomas W. Banse has been elected vice president and will be in charge of the estimating department of Seedorff Masonry, Inc., Strawberry Point, la.
He succeeds vice president Ivan P. Opperman, who will direct the estimating department.
# Jones Named to Manage Target Diamond Plant
Target Products Division, Federal Mogul Corp. has appointed Leon Jones manager of its diamond products plant in LeRoy, N.Y., announced Carl F. Roemmele, Target's chief executive officer and general manager.
Jones has a broad background in the production and application of diamond products in the construction industry. Before joining Target he was with Holes, Inc., Houston, Texas. He formerly owned Texas Diamond Tool Co. and once served as a development engineer with Christensen Diamond Tools.
# Passive Solar Calculator Program for Designers
A new calculator program which will help designers analyze the energy savings of masonry buildings obtainable through passive solar strategies is now available from the International Masonry Institute, Washington, D.C. Known as "SOLPAS," the program predicts the monthly and yearly energy savings contributed by passive solar elements as well as auxiliary heating requirements for passive solar buildings.
SOLPAS will enable the architect or engineer using a hand-held calculator (T1-59) with a PC-100 printer to rapidly evaluate individual or combined passive solar techniques to arrive at the optimum design. The program is available as a 120-page manual which includes complete program listings, weather data for 219 cities in the U.S. and Canada, radiation conversion curves, and a flow chart demonstrating calculation logic for the program.
The completely validated method contained in SOLPAS is based on Volume Two of the Passive Solar Design Handbook by J. D. Balcomb, et al.