A Look At Detroit Medical Center's Sinai-Grace Hospital

The Bottleworks District: The Modern-Day Revitalization Of An Iconic Structure

Thinking Beyond Exteriors: How Masonry Interiors Create More Efficient and Sustainable Buildings

Everyone knows that Americans need to get outside and get active. Report after report shows that obesity and inactivity are making us sicker and shortening our lives. Despite all the studies and surveys, convincing us to shed our sedentary ways has prove

While I was visiting Savannah, Ga., earlier this year, I was waiting to cross at an intersection when I spotted a girl wearing a t-shirt that said “architecture.” Being the inquisitive type, I asked her if she was studying architecture. She said that ind

Save the Date!! April 7, 2015 is the Chicago Masonry Expo at IMI's Facility in Addison

BRICKLAYERS' TOOLS

"One area that continues to grow in most trades is cordless tools," says Robert Chetalet, senior project manager for Cordless and Cutting for Hilti. "There are a wide range of cordless tools available to help masons get their

Talented, relative newcomers to the BAC earned the distinction of top apprentices in eight trowel trades crafts at the BAC/IMI International Apprentice Contest, held in September.

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert (1920-1986)

The Craft of Masonry

By Hazel Bradford
Director of Communications, International Masonry Institute
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Partnering with Practitioners

ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIENT ways to accomplish this ideal is for schools to partner with experts in the respective materials. Schools that take that approach quickly learn the value of such partnerships.

The

Further Learning

"Laying the brick on a bed of mortar, leveling - all these events quickly and thoroughly immerse [students] in recognizing the need for a strong collaboration in creating design ideas."

Practitioners like IMI "make all

Further Learning

For professionals, the construction sequence can be rehearsed and improved by attention to opportunities built through industry partnerships, pre-project planning meetings, and direct craftworker and contractor involvement.

Further Learning

Continuing education for design and construction professionals at all stages of their careers is a core part of IMI's mission of quality union masonry. At ARCADIS Giffels, a top manufacturing and industry design firm based in M

QUALITY MASONRY TOOLS

KING BRICK HOD

This is particularly true for younger, and young-minded, designers contemplating "futuristic" materials. Few if any students of architecture stop to think that such "futuristic" thinking about mater

"Masonry Variations"

LAST YEAR, the International Masonry Institute (IMI) and the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) launched "Masonry Variations," a masonry exhibit that investigates the future potential of stone,

Masonry of the Future

Good masonry projects are not just the creation of a talented architect, but depend on collaboration between those who design and those who build. That exercise of the imagination led to a three-ring brick gyroscope, its l