Masonry Magazine June 2004 Page. 48
News
News continued from page 45 views, all the fish you can catch and bragging rights to saving Fort Jefferson.
Brick by historic brick, the nation's most isolated, ambitious and star-crossed coastal fort is falling into the sea. That is prompting the National Park Service to look for 15 or so hearty souls willing to brave isolation and deprivation to undo the damage wrought by 158 years of tropical salt air.
It's not a mission for the meek or pampered. The masonry crew hired for the first phase of the $16 million repair on Garden Key, a 23-acre sand island 68 miles due west of Key West, Fla., must be self-sufficient.
Completely self-sufficient. After all, this job will be a yearlong, bring-your-own-everything test of endurance. That includes the basics: food, water, housing, sanitation and electricity.
Forget something? It's a long, expensive haul to the nearest Home Depot, a two-hour ferryboat ride or 30-minute flight by seaplane...
Left unchecked, large sections of the fort will continue falling into the sea.
"Iron is a problem everywhere it was used," said Glenn Simpson, a preservation specialist from the Park Service's office in Santa Fe, N.M. "Over 150 years, it can displace two to three times its original space."...
The Park Service couldn't say how much the crew would be paid, but there's no doubt it will far surpass the $2 a day the original skilled workmen made.
Maine
Reported by the Portland Press Herald, "New Portland school aims to be green," April 29, 2004:
Revised plans for a new, $10.5 million elementary school on Portland's Munjoy Hill address some, but not all, of the concerns of the city's Planning Board.
The design calls for a "green" school that will ensure a healthy, energy-saving environment, while recycling some materials from the mold-infested building it will replace - the former Jack Elementary School.
At a workshop on the school proposal earlier this month, Planning Board members questioned the lack of a prominent entrance from the Eastern Promenade and the liberal use of corrugated metal as inexpensive siding...
The architects also decreased the amount of corrugated metal siding and increased the number of masonry blocks that would be used on the school's exterior. Planners worried that using too much metal siding, while less expensive than colored concrete blocks, would give the school an overwhelmingly industrial look.
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June 2004
Southeast
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Pine Hall Brick's growth is fueled by the stable and growing housing demand in major markets like Atlanta, Chattanooga and Birmingham.
The construction plan includes the addition of a new kiln and production line to the existing one-kiln plant. The plant produces cored face brick and paving brick for the residential and commercial markets. The expansion will be an addition to current capacity and will not affect operations or employment at any of the company's other manufacturing facilities.
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Virginia
Reported by WRIC-TV Richmond, "Downtown Fire Latest," April 25, 2004:
...Richmond city building officials say the [Virginia Commonwealth Uni-
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