Masonry Magazine April 1983 Page. 12
MCAA committee members were kept busy as were Canadian Masonry Contractors Association Board members.
MCAA CONFERENCE
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of IMI into four program boards, and the labor disputes settlement plan. Carlisle closed by stressing the continuing need for "cooperation, not confrontation."
The next speaker, John R. Mock, a leading proponent of loadbearing masonry design, gave a slide presentation on multi-storied loadbearing concrete masonry structures that his firm, Hendrick & Mock Architects, has designed in recent years. Two of these buildings are the Town & Country's West Highrise and the Hanalei Hotel Tower, situated nearby. (The Hanalei addition was featured on the cover of Masonry after it opened in 1966.)
The other structures include the Kahana Beach Condominium Resort Hotel in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, the U.S. Navy Barracks in Coronado, Calif., the Atlas Galleria Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif., and the Hilton Hotel and Santa Fe Towers in San Diego.
"The one never-ending requirement for the use of masonry in medium to highrise applications has less to do with technical knowledge, construction methods, availability of materials or comparative costs themselves than with the promotion of this information to general contractors, developers, architects, engineers and educators," Mock told the MCAA members.
"Waiting for these people to come to you as mason contractors for your ideas on the subject just does not do it. The password in real estate always has been location, location, location. The password in loadbearing masonry should become promotion, promotion, promotion."
Mock listed the following advantages in loadbearing masonry systems:
* Quality control.
* Speed and economy of construction.
* High efficiency through repetitious construction and steady work.
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Architect John R. Mock (left) and MCAA immediate past president Louis J. Helbert display their Lead Man Awards presented by president Leonard (center). Dr. John Dunlop also was a recipient of the award.
What are they looking at so intently? They were part of the large group of spectators who watched the outdoor Masonry Industry Showcase material handling equipment demonstration pictured on the facing page.
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