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SURVIVAL KIT
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The Survival Kit is designed primarily as a tool for the associations' local chapters to use in establishing local Joint Industry Coordinating Committees to discuss the guidelines and adapt them to local conditions. The guidelines also will be presented to architects, consulting engineers and members of construction users' groups for their consideration.
"The Kit merely codifies the good things that are being done by many people in the industry," said Robert
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Wilkinson, president of ASC. For many years Wilkinson has been a catalyst in developing joint guidelines and policy statements.
In addition to the recently developed guidelines for better relations, the manual consolidates earlier guidelines on:
* Procedures for change orders.
* Construction coordination conferences.
* Punch list procedures.
* Temporary job utilities and services.
* Checklist for subcontracts.
* Overtime, construction costs and productivity.
* Scope bidding for private work.
* Owner's ability to pay.
The Kit also contains joint policy statements on prompt payment, bid errors and adjustments on federal and federally assisted construction, plan deposits and charges for non-contracted construction services. Endorsed forms on standard sub-bid proposals, subcontractor's application for payment and work authorization are also included.
The next step for the task force will be to develop a plan for a cooperative effort to encourage local construction groups to meet on the guidelines.
ASC Favors New
Accounting Standards
The standards for employers' accounting for obligations under multiemployer pension plans recently promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board are exactly what specialty contractors needed, according to Robert L. Wilkinson, president of Associated Specialty Contractors.
Wilkinson explained that almost all employers participating in multiemployer plans will need report on their financial statements as net pension cost only the required contribution for the period and recognize as a liability only those periodic contributions which are due and unpaid.
Footnotes will also be required to describe the multiemployer plans in which the employer participates, including the employee groups covered, the type of benefits provided-such as defined benefit or contribution-and the nature and effect of significant matters affecting comparability of information from one accounting period to another.
The only time a contributor to a multiemployer plan will be required to footnote any possible liability for unfunded benefits will be if withdrawal liabilities are probable or reasonably possible, Wilkinson said.
OBITUARIES
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Mr. Evans previously headed the AFL-CIO Mortgage Investment Trust and had retired to live in Phoenix, Ariz. Upon the formation of the H.I.T., he again assumed the leadership of the new trust and moved back to Washington.
Surviving him are his wife, Arlouine; a daughter. Ann, and a son, John.
Eugene P. Sanders
Eugene P. Sanders, 73, died in Portland, Ore., in mid-November, 1985. He had been a prominent figure in the masonry cutting industry for over 35 years.
Having started with Clipper Manufacturing Co. in the early 40s, Mr. Sanders then helped form Champion Manufacturing Co. After this venture, he started Victor Corp. in Bristol, Pa. In the early 50s, he sold Victor and started the Sanders Saw Company.
Mr. Sanders was a friendly individual and an innovative business competitor, one who greatly added to the status of the masonry saw industry.
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