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The average wage paid for the merit shop journeyman (all crafts combined) is per hour, with the foreman rate set at $15.15 per hour, and helpers at $7.67 per hour. Contractors performing industrial construction reported the highest journeyman wage at $12.41, while highway construction reported the lowest at $11.28.
Generally, reports PAS, contractors provide paid vacations 90 percent of the time, while 61 percent provide paid holidays, 90 percent offer health insurance, 38 percent provide dental insurance, 34 percent provide a pension plan, and 37 percent provide profit sharing plan. About 38 percent of the companies reported having a craft bonus program while over 45 percent of the contractors utilized a performance appraisal system to evaluate craft personnel.
'ay To The Top
A Solid Work Platform
Non-Stop towers are built from heavy gauge tubular steel and trussed every 4-6 in height. This gives our 16" wide towers incredible strength and sway-resistance. Because of this advantage, you can safely land materials on the laborers' platform, exactly where other systems tell you to never land a load. In actual on-the-job tests of free standing Non-Stop towers, landing a full cube of 12" blocks (2350 pounds) on the laborers' platform at 20 feet high produced a hackward fles of less than one inch! This kind of strength and stability means your men will feel safe and secure on a solid working platform. And, you can safely stock ahead to free your Torklift for other duties.
X-Braces Stay In Place
The s-braces are always in place for maximum safety and stability. They simply pass through the work platform both going up and corning down. Non-Stop introduced this unique design to eliminate the dangerous, time-consuming chore of removing and replacing x-braces as the platform is raised. When the wall is sopped out, Non Stop can be lowered and mady to go to work again in one-third the time of scaffolding without this feature This advantage reduces your labor en duties to only two feeding materials to the masons, and raising the scaffold as needed.
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KMI Honors Architects
ARLETTE McDaniel, architect, was awarded the prestigious "M" Honor Award for Excellence in Masonry design at the Kentuckiana Masonry Institute's annual awards program. Her winning project was the Uhl/McDaniel Residence in Louisville, Kentucky. Mason Contractor for the project was L. Berger Masonry.
Award for the best use of brick and clay products was won by K. Norman Berry Associates, architects, for the University Club and Alumni Center, University of Louisville. Structural engineer was Senier Campbell Associates and mason contractor was. Masonomics, Incorporated.
Award for the best use of concrete masonry was presented to Gary R. Scott, architect, for the Green County Middle School, Greensburg, Kentucky. Structural engineer was Rangaswamy and Associates, and River City Development was the mason contractor.
Award for the best use of masonry in landscaping was presented to Scruggs and Hammond for the Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky. Mason contractor was Gilpin Masonry Construction.
Construction Outlook
Sweetened by Housing
A FAVORABLE climate for home-building and buying, coupled with an influx of public works funding from 1991's Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act will drive a 5.4 percent hike in construction both this year and in 1993, according to William D. Toal, chief economist for the Portland Cement Association in his latest forecast of economic trends.
"Interest sensitive areas such as housing and capital spending should continue to rebound," says Toal. "Increases in consumer confidence, employment growth, and new public construction funding stand to prevent the flattening out that doomed last year's short lived recovery."
Interest rate reduction has spawned the highest levels of housing affordability in more than a decade. A pent up demand for housing has been forced by this condition and four consecutive years of housing start levels under 1.5-million units.
"The fundamentals are in place for a recovery, mainly for single family unit construction," adds Toal. "Single family starts have risen from under 700,000 units in early 1991 to 1/1-million in March of this year. That level of new construction will increase gradually over the next two years, with 1994 bringing 1.2-million starts."
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