Masonry Magazine February 1973 Page. 31
NABD Report
By: Jeffrey L. Brock
Washington, D.C.-The NABD/BIA 6th Advanced Sales Engineering Training Course will be held February 26-March 2 this year. This course is designed to give students a clear understanding of brick's technology. Each student receives a comprehensive library of books and pamphlets which will serve him throughout his selling career. The social and economical problems facing society will challenge us severely in the coming months ahead the necessity and/or desirability to have better qualified salesmen can be met by this industry-oriented training program.
Additional news of our Northeast Ohio Chapter's February seminar on panelization-a program announcement will title this "The Quest for Excellence with Prefabricated Brick Masonry." A movie showing both the MSI and the Vetovitz jobsite way of panel-making will be shown, along with physical samples of various panels at the seminar.
This month's new member comes to NABD from Niagara Falls, N.Y.- Empire Builders Supply Co., Inc., with Carl J. Olson the official representative. Our membership count is presently at 122-and rising!
March 13-14 marks the dates for the NABD National Seminar. This year's program topics consist of comparative wall costs, in-the-wall costs, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and general sales motivation. Dr. Paul S. Ello of Executive Consultants, Washington, D.C., will be a guest speaker for the seminar to be held at the Holiday Inn, McLean, Va.
Slag Blocks Help to
Change Chicago Skyline
Millions of expanded slag concrete masonry units are being used in large, prestigious buildings now under construction in Chicago. The blocks are manufactured by Illinois Brick Company with expanded slag aggregate, a byproduct of the blast furnaces of U.S. Steel's Gary Works.
The smelting process takes place at around 2,700 degrees F. At this temperature, all volatile and combustible materials have been burned off. That is why the lightweight concrete blocks made with USS Garylite expanded slag aggregate are fire-resistant and thus advantageous to builders.
Illinois Brick Company's lightweight concrete blocks are currently going into the 110-story Sears Tower and the 80-story Standard Oil Building. In the Sears Tower, the blocks are being used in high-speed elevator shafts, cold air returns and utility stairwells. Sears will use more than 1 million of the blocks from Illinois Brick.
At Standard, 500,000 blocks are being used. Other Chicago buildings where the blocks are being used include 2 Illinois Center; the WMA Building, and the CNA Building.
Customized Masonry
Block Introduced
A new concept in masonry construction aimed at giving the architect complete freedom of design was unveiled in south Florida at the National Concrete Masonry Association trade show in Miami Beach Convention Hall.
A pavilion incorporating nine various types of custom block was designed by Miami architect Alfred Browning Parker and erected in Convention Hall by C.A. Davis. Most of the blocks were designed by New York architect Paul Rudolph, considered the "father" of the customized masonry unit.
Known as "customized concrete masonry units," the concept allows the architect to design his own concrete blocks, limited only by the requirement that their individual size be acceptable to the high-speed block producing machines generally in use around the country.
"These blocks," explained Paul Lenchuk, executive director of NCMA, "are created for prestige jobs. They allow architects to create designs that will not be covered over by stucco or other materials. The design on the face of the block provides for maximum use of exposed masonry."
Trinity Makes Series of
Management Appointments
A series of top-level management appointments has been announced by Trinity Division, General Portland, Inc., through Jurgen F. Ringer, vice president & general manager of the Dallas-based firm. Appointed were: James M. Shilstone as president of Architectural Concrete Consultants, a General Portland division; Warren H. Johnson as manager of marketing services, Trinity Division; Donald E. Reysa as manager of specialty products marketing for Trinity; Richard A. Zartler as general manager of ready mix operations; Jerry L. Kemp as general sales manager of North Texas operations; Robert L.. Halliday as manager of engineering; C.W. Franke as manager of architectural marketing. and James E. Scott as general sales manager of Trinity.
Anchor "Hy-Dump"
Low Charge 38" - High Discharge 35"
Designed especially to provide a low charging height and a high discharge height coupled with a power dump. A fast mixing machine capable of dumping into wheelbarrow, concrete buggy or mortar pump. For information, phone (312) 247-2530 or write Anchor Mfg. Co., 2922 W. 26th St., Chicago, III. 60623.
Dealer Inquiries Invited
Anchor
ANCHOR MANUFACTURING CO.