Masonry Magazine December 2015 Page. 56
INDUSTRY NEWS
find loyal customers? If your big thing is to find a strong project manager to run your projects, will visiting jobsites to check in with your foreman help you find a project manager?
What big thing will make your com�pany become great? What do you need to focus on to make it happen? What do you need to do with your time to achieve your big thing?
Hedley will be presenting four sem�inars during World ofConcrete, Feb. 1 through 4, 2016, in Las Vegas. He will have time to meet with three contrac�tors for a Bizcoach session. Email him for a proposal and to arrange a time to meet, GH@HardhatPresentations.com.
TEC Exterior Tile Installation Webinar Recording Available Online
Sponsored by TEC and hosted by the National Tile Contractors Associa�tion (NTCA), TEC presented its "Strat�egies for Exterior Tile Installations"
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webinar in summer 2015 with the help of technical support manager, Tom Plaskota. A recording of the presenta�tion is now available to the public.
The webinar broke a new record for NTCA registration, and more than 125 tile and flooring contractors tuned in to learn more about products and strategies for successful outdoor tile installations. The presentation stressed the importance of careful tile selection, substrate preparation and mortar and grout selection.
Plaskota used his 30 years of tile and flooring industry experience to cover all aspects of a well-executed exterior tile in�stallation. The highly informative webi�nar resulted in an exciting and engaging dialogue amongst its viewers.
To keep the conversation going, a re�cording of the webinar has been made available at http://bit.ly/lRMajRB for those who were unable to attend. The TEC Exterior Tile Installation Guide can be found athttp://bit.ly/lKxKHSV.
Equipment Rental Industry Five-Year Forecast: Even Growth
The American Rental Association's (ARA) latest forecast caUs for equipment rental industry revenue growth in the United States of6.7 percent in 2016 and 2017,6.2 percent in 2018 and 5.8 percent in 2019 to reach $48.7 billion.
The growth pace is slightly more moderate than the previous two years, but the industry's progress is consistently positive regardless ofchanges in oil and gas, construction and other segments equipment rental companies serve.
The economic analysis from the ARA Rental Market Monitor subscription ser�vice suggests that the ongoing rebound in real residential construction in 2015 willhelp fuel the growth in the construc�tion and industrial equipment and the general tool rental segments.
The short-term forecast for Canada is more subdued in 2016, with expecta�tions of 0.8 percent growth in equipment rental revenue to reach $4.98 billion, with a greater rebound of 5.7 percent in 2017,6.3percentin 2018 and 5.6 percent in 2019 to reach $5.9 billion.
2016 SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 World Championship Roster
After four months on the road and 20 tour stops across North America, the 2015 SPEC MIX BRICKIAYER 500 Re�gional Series is officially complete. The "Road to Las Vegas" is paved for the 20 teams that won their qualifying compe�tition. With the roster set for the 2016 World Championship event, which in�cludes the 2015 returning Champion Fred Campbell and SPEC MIX TOP CRAFTSMAN Garrett Hood, plus a bricklayer from Australia, a total of 23 elite bricklayers and their respective mason tenders will be headed to Vegas to compete for the title: "World's Best Bricklayer!"
The 14th Annual SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 World Champion�ship event will be held Feb. 3, 2016, at the World of Concrete/World of Ma�sonry tradeshow in the Gold Lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. With as many as 4,000 spectators in attendance and thousands oflive \'Vebcast viewers tuned in to watch 23 world-class ma�sons compete, the SPEC MIX BRICK�LAYER 500 is the largest masonry competition in the construction indus�try. In a town where "cash is king:' it's only fitting that these masonry teams will compete for about $100,000 in cash and prizes, including a 2016 Ford F-250 XLT 4x4 Crew Cab truck.
The SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 is revered as the premier promotion of the masonry industry that showcases the skill and craftsmanship ofits trades�men. The competition is unique in that it promotes masonry both regionally and internationally through an excit�ing year-round campaign that culmi�nates in Las Vegas during the World of Concrete tradeshow. The mission ofthe program is to unite all the major play�ers in the masonry trade: manufactur�ers, suppliers, associations, contractors, masons, mason apprentices, mason ten�ders, media and their enthusiastic fam�ilies to promote masonry construction and the trade.
The competitions inspire a sense of fun, family, pride, and a love for the
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