Masonry Magazine September 1971 Page. 23
Metal Building Gets
Skinned By Masonry
How do you improve the appearance of a metal warehouse-type structure? Ask any bricklayer or mason contractor and he'll say, "First don't build with metal and risk aesthetic objections, unsightly aging, and costly maintenance. Secondly, if you make the mistake, cover or replace it with masonry."
It happened recently on Bear Tavern Road in Hopewell Township, N.J., according to Anthony Acquaviva, Business Manager of Trenton Local #9. Acquaviva reported to the International Masonry Institute (IMI) that a building constructed there this year, has had its new beige aluminum-sheathing skinned off two sides and replaced with brick, backed with block, to match the other two masonry sides.
Twenty-two members of his BM&PIU Local, joined by 11 BM&PIU members from other localities, laid 100,000 sand-molded colonial bricks backed with 13,000 cinder blocks to complete the building. The mason contractor was Huston Associates of Philadelphia, Pa.
The 25 x 560 ft. building occupies a site with two colonial brick buildings owned by the same company in a residential-type neighborhood. The three structures are used for research, processing, and commercial purposes. The new building was constructed this year with two exterior masonry walls and two of aluminum sheathing for future expansion. The job began in May and was set for completion in July.
From all indications, local citizens and zoning officials found the sheathing incompatible with the neighborhood, objectionable from an aesthetic standpoint, and at variance with the type building they would approve for the location.
In any case, Huston Associates who did the two masonry walls, answered a request for a bid to replace the aluminum walls with masonry. The aluminum came down, brick and block replaced it, and Hopewell Township now has a masonry building, Acquaviva told IMI.
Almost 40 per cent of all highway deaths occur on weekends-56 per cent between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., according to statistics compiled by The Travelers Insurance Companies. "Never on weekends" might be a driver motto worth observing.
masonry
September, 1971
Moves Assembled
MORGEN Scaffolding
for 2¢ a Square Foot
James Alexander Masonry Co., Georgianna, Ala., is doing the masonry on the 600,000 square foot Westwood Mall Shopping Center in Pensacola. They have Morgen Scaffolding to finish a wall 20¼ feet high by 200 feet long. After each wall is completed, they move this 4100 square feet of scaffolding to the location of the next wall in five hours, using a fork lift, its operator and two laborers.
At current rates in Alabama, this figures out to a labor cost of less than 2¢ a square foot to lower the work platforms, move to another wall, plank and stock.
J. L. King, superintendent, says, "After using Morgen Scaffolding for four years, I would not attempt to do a job without it."
Cost of initial erection and final tear-down, using the Morgen fork lift and scaffolding trailer system, is equally low. Barber & McDonnell, Inc., Ft. Worth, erects, planks and stocks 5220 square feet of Morgen Scaffolding (180 feet by 29 feet high) in four hours with a fork lift, its operator, and three men.
Contractors who figure 8¢ to 10¢ a square foot for scaffolding labor are happily surprised with the speed of erection, moving and tear-down the Morgen system gives them. And these labor savings are all in addition to the increase in masons' production that usually runs 20% or more.
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