Masonry Magazine March 2007 Page. 22
2007
STATE OF THE
ASSOCIATION
Report of the President
Advancing Masonry in a
Global Economy
MCAA
By Frank Campitelli
President
Mason Contractors
Association of America
Each year, the President of the Mason Contractors Association of America stands before the membership during the Annual Convention and reports on the activities and progress of the association. For the past decade, I have listened to my predecessors and marveled at how much our association has progressed as a force for change in our industry. I have privately wondered how our association could continue to expand our programs and services for our industry's contractors at such a rapid pace while I was president. Yet, this year I stand before you to present my very first State of the Association address and I am proud to report that our association has continued to grow at a remarkable pace this past year again.
The MCAA is the national association that represents the interests of all of our industry's contractors. This past year, we looked beyond our boarders to think globally and work with our contractor friends in Canada and Australia. Our mission statement is simply stated: To Advance the Masonry Industry. I believe that as an association, we took some major steps to achieve our mission as we take a broader view of the issues that face us.
During our Midyear Meeting, our board approved two major initiatives that will enable the MCAA to better service our members and the interests of masonry customers. First we approved the establishment of a national fund that will be used to educate the design professionals both at the academic and practitioner levels on the benefits of building with total masonry their construction (systems) on projects. This new national fund will enable the MCAA to achieve one of our major goals of maintaining, developing and expanding the industry's market share. We believe that the contractors have a unique ability to promote masonry and masonry systems unlike our friends in the supply side of our industry. We believe that the lack of a strong contractor presence in the promotion of masonry has hurt our industry's ability to grow. Therefore, it is incumbent as the MCAA to ask our members to support this major initiative to expand our markets and the use of masonry materials.
The second major initiative and probably one of the most significant programs our industry has ever engaged is the certification of our industry's mason contractors. For the past two years, we have listened to pleas from
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