The Masonry Society will hold its Annual Meeting in Evanston, Illinois this October 15-20. An exciting and educational program is being planned for your enjoyment and professional development. There will be numerous opportunities to learn about historic masonry, new masonry, and masonry systems of the future. Plan to attend these significant meetings today! Click on the links below for more information on the meetings:

• Annual Meeting Brochure

• Preliminary Schedule

• Registration

So that we can accurately plan, all attendees are expected to register for the meetings either as Full Registrants, One-Day/One-Committee Registrants, or when appropriate, as guests.

We hope to see there!

This page provides information regarding registration, accommodations, general sessions, educational seminars, and social events.  If you would like more specific information, please contact TMS. 

Go Airport Express has provided a special group rate for shuttle service from O'Hare and Midway Airports to the Hotel Orrington for the TMS Meetings. Their shuttles depart every 10-15 minutes. To make a shuttle reservation, click here or call 1-888-284-3826 and use code “TMS”.

 
Educational Seminars and General Session Topics
A number of educational opportunities will be available for attendees in addition to the Society’s Committee Meetings, Member/Guest Reception, and Awards Luncheon. Descriptions of General Session presentation topics and Special Educational Seminars are provided on TMS’s website (www.masonrysociety.org). Some of the general session presentation topics include:

• Masonry in Chicago - From the 1871 Fire to 2009 & Beyond by Chuck Ostrander

• Masonry and Life Cycle Assessment, by Patrick Rand

• The New NAHB/ICC National Green Building Standard & Masonry- Related Criteria by Christine A. Subasic

• ASTM C15 on Manufactured Masonry Units Evolving with the Construction Marketplace by James A. Tann

• Update on the NEW TMS Direct Design Handbook by Benchmark H. Harris and Jason J. Thompson

• Make Your Project Successful with Masonry: Specification, Code Compliance, Quality Assurance, & Schedule Friendly Detailing by G. Andy Dalrymple

• Stabilization of America's Masonry Heritage using Retrofit Anchors and Ties by Alan Pettingale

• Lower Bound Compressive and Flexural Strengths of ASTM C 270 Mortar by Benchmark H. Harris

• Principal Findings of the NSF NEES Project on Performance - Based Design of New Masonry  by  Richard E. Klingner

• and many more..

TMS will also present the following educational seminar prior to the meetings:

• Design of Masonry Structures to the 2008 MSJC & 2009 IBC, October 15

Besides the business meetings and educational sessions, a number of social events are also available for attendees and their guests, including the TMS Member/Guest Reception, The Awards Luncheon, Game Night, and a walking tour of Evanston.

The 2009 Annual Meeting of The Masonry Society will be held in beautiful Evanston IL at the historic Hotel Orrington (pictured below). The Hotel Orrington features a great location in the heart of downtown Evanston, just 30 minutes from downtown Chicago and O’Hare International Airport. Here you’ll find boutique shops, a wide variety of pubs and restaurants, a multiplex movie theater, Lake Michigan, a Chicago subway train station, and Northwestern University (Pictured above.  Photograph courtesy of Chicago’s North Shore Convention & Visitors Bureau ).

Sponsorship Opportunities for TMS's Annual Meeting
A number of sponsorship opportunities are available to show your support for TMS and its members, and to help advertise your company to the attendees. Sponsorships are used to directly offset costs for the meeting attendees and to provide a comfortable working atmosphere. For information about sponsorship, or to become a sponsor, contact the office at 303-939-9700.

Already several organizations have agreed to financially sponsor the meetings. We would like to thank them for their continued support of TMS!

Non-Financial Sponsors who are helping coordinate and promote the meetings include: