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June 30th Deadline extended until July 7th for:
Clayford T. Grimm P.E. Student Scholarship
Applications - July 31
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Designing Masonry to the
2008 MSJC & the 2009 IBC Seminar, October 15 Evanston,
Illinois |
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TMS 2009 Annual Meeting, October 15-20, Evanston, Illinois
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To find out more about
the publications listed below, or to order them, visit
TMS's E-Store and
search for the publication by name, type or author. *TMS
members – be sure to access the e-store via the TMS Member Area to receive
member discounts on qualifying publications.
Current Best
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New to
TMS's Members Area
TMS Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2
TMS New, Vol. 21, No. 2
TMS Responds, Vol. 7, No. 1
TMS Responds, Vol. 7, No. 2 |
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ASTM Symposium on Masonry
June 8, 2010, St.
Louis, Missouri.
8th International Masonry Conference
(8IMC), July 4-7, 2010 Dresden, Germany
Structural Analysis of Historical
Constructions
Shanghai, China, October 6-8, 2010
9th Australasian Masonry Conference
February 2011 Queenstown, New Zealand
11th North American Masonry
Conference, June 6-8, 2011, Minneapolis, MN
15th International Brick-Block
Masonry Conference May 13-16, 2012, Brazil |
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The Masonry Society
3970 Broadway, Suite 201-D
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 303-939-9700
Fax: 303-541-9215
Website: www.masonrysociety.org
E-Mail: info@masonrysociety.org |
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Hold the Dates! TMS
Annual Meeting, October 15-20, Evanston, Illinois
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The Masonry Society will hold its 2009
Annual
Meeting in Evanston, Illinois this October 15-20, starting with
a seminar on Design of Masonry Structures and concluding
with the meetings of the Masonry Standards Joint
Committee.
A preliminary schedule of meetings and
activities is available
here.
Online registration for the meetings will open in late July.
A pdf registration form can be downloaded by clicking
here if you wish to fax or mail in your
registration.
Sponsorship opportunities for the meetings are still
open. Call TMS at 303-939-9700 for details.
We hope
to see you in Evanston!
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The Masonry
Society's 2009 Annual Meeting will be held at the
beautiful Hotel Orrington in downtown Evanston,
Illinois, which is near boutique shops, a wide variety
of pubs and restaurants, a movie theater, Lake Michigan,
a Chicago subway station, and Northwestern University
(pictured above).
Photograph courtesy of Chicago’s North Shore Convention
& Visitors Bureau
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New Plan Reading & Inspection Resources Available from
TMS!
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At the request
of numerous candidates preparing for the ICC/TMS
Structural Masonry Special Inspectors Examination, The
Masonry Society has made available materials used in its
popular Special Inspection of Structural Masonry
Construction and Introduction to
Basic Plan Reading Seminars in printed form. For
details, click on the links below:
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Sustainability
E-Newsletter funded with Pilot Project Funds
Newsletter will be sent to TMS Members later in July!
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Thanks to
generous donations from TMS Members, The Masonry Society was
able to fund a Sustainability E-Newsletter as its first
Pilot Project. The Sustainability E-Newsletter is being
developed by TMS Member Christine A. Subasic P.E., LEED
AP based on numerous requests from both members and
nonmembers. For the past several years, Subasic
has e-mailed similar information to members of TMS's
Sustainability Committee. Interest in the service has
grown beyond TMS Members. This new e-newsletter will
provide more formal reviews for this material and wider
dissemination.
Through Pilot
Project funding, this E-Newsletter, which will provide a
news/wire type newsletter, will be developed and
distributed twice monthly from July 2009 until December
2009.
Read
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11th North American Masonry Conference Preparations
Underway
Call for Abstracts now available |
Click
here to download the
Call for Abstracts.
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Inspection Webinars this Fall?
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The
Masonry Society is considering conducting a series of 10
webinars this fall based on our popular "Special
Inspection of Structural Masonry Construction" and
"Introduction to Basic Plan Reading Seminars". If
conducted, the webinars would likely be 1 1/2 hours in
length and run every Wednesday (excluding the one prior
to Thanksgiving) from September 23 through December 2.
We are still trying to evaluate costs for the webinars
but they will likely run around $100/webinar for an
individual and $500/webinar for a group. Costs may vary
based on our expected costs to host the webinars and
develop the materials.
The webinars,
like the seminars they are based on, will serve as a
perfect preparation course for individuals preparing for
the ICC/TMS Structural Masonry Special Inspection
Examination and for those who regularly inspect masonry
construction. Topics covered will include an
introduction to masonry special inspection, masonry
materials, reinforcement, mortar, mortar mixing, grout,
grout placement, testing, extreme weather construction,
basic plan reading, and much more.
If you or your
firm might be interested in the webinars, please let us
know by clicking
here so we determine possible interest.
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2010
Masonry Research E-Newsletter Funded as 1st
Endowment Project
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At its May 2009 meetings, the Board of Directors
approved releasing interest earned from the
Endowment Fund to support a 2010 edition of a
Masonry Research Newsletter. The
first edition of the Research E-Newsletter
was published earlier this year by Dr. Jennifer
Tanner and Dr. Saadet Toker of the University of
Wyoming with financial support from the Council
for Masonry Research (CMR) and TMS's Research
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That newsletter was warmly
received and as such, TMS’s Research Committee requested
that the Board consider funding future editions of the
Newsletter. While the Board of Directors would like to
see funding come from its general budget, monies were
not available in 2010. As such, at the recommendation of
the Executive Committee, the Board approved releasing
earned interest from the Endowment Fund to support the
development of a 2010 Masonry Research E-Newsletter. Read
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TMS submits Change Proposals to IBC, IRC and ASCE 7
During the
last weeks of May, TMS staff and volunteers worked with
representatives of the Masonry Alliance for Codes and
Standards (MACS) to develop a series of code change
proposals to the International Building Code (IBC),
International Residential Code (IRC) and ASCE 7 in
regards to masonry design and construction. Many of
these changes would update the IBC, IRC and ASCE 7-10 to
the provisions in the MSJC Code and Specification (TMS
402/TMS 602). In addition, changes were drafted to the
IBC to permit the use of two new TMS standards that are
currently under development:
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Direct
Design Handbook. When finalized, this new
standard that is being developed by the Design
Practices Committee (DPC), will be a table-based
structural design method permitting the user,
following a specific series of steps, to design and
specify relatively simple, single-story concrete
masonry bearing-wall structures. If adopted, it
would permit another way, consistent with the MSJC
Standards, to design masonry.
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Standard for Masonry High Wind Residential
Construction is being developed by the Standards
Development Committee (SDC) and when finished will
provide minimum requirements for structural
component survivability during high wind events of
masonry walled residential one and two-family
structures. If adopted, it would provide a deemed to
comply method to design masonry residences in high
wind areas that would be consistent with the
requirements of the MSJC Standards.
Proposals
were also submitted to the IBC to remove or modify a
number of unneeded and incorrect definitions.
The proposals
to ASCE 7 are being balloted by their Seismic
Subcommittee and later by their Main Committee this
summer. The proposals to the IBC and IRC will be
considered in late October at ICC’s Baltimore Code
Hearings. The goal of all these changes is to maintain
the masonry design and construction provisions in these
Code and Standards in a consistent and user friendly
fashion to provide straightforward design and
construction requirements for masonry. For more
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Melander and Throop named newest TMS Fellow Members
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The Masonry Society (TMS) is pleased to announce
the appointment of John M. Melander and Diane B.
Throop as Fellow Members to TMS. Earlier this
year, TMS’s Awards Committee considered packets
for a number of nominees, and forwarded a
recommendation to the Board of Directors for
consideration. The Board approved the Melander
and Throop as TMS’s Fellow Members via an
electronic ballot earlier this summer. TMS will
formally recognize these new Fellow Members at
the 2009 TMS Annual Meeting in Evanston,
Illinois during the Awards Lunch Ceremony on
Saturday, October 17, 2009. Please plan to be
there to congratulate them, or send them your
best wishes if you cannot attend. Read more on
some of what John and Diane have done for the
industry and TMS by clicking
here.
These new
fellows join TMS’s other fellow members: Daniel
P. Abrams, William G. Bailey, Christine Beall,
Luigia Binda, J. Gregg Borchelt, Russell H.
Brown, James Colville, John L. Dawe, Robert G.
Drysdale, Ahmad Hamid, Gary C. Hart, Edwin T.
Huston, Rochelle C. Jaffe, Lawrence F. Kahn,
Richard E. Klingner, David I. McLean, Adrian W.
Page, Max L. Porter, J. Patrick Rand, Nigel G.
Shrive, Michael P. Schuller, and John G.
Tawresey
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Last Reminder -
Award Applications/Nominations being accepted by TMS
The Masonry Society is currently accepting applications
and nominations for a number of Awards. Click on links
below for details.
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Special Thanks and Recognition of
TMS Sustaining and
Affiliate Members
While all of our members are critically important to the
success of TMS programs, Sustaining and Affiliate
Members voluntarily contribute additional resources
above minimum membership dues to support our mission to
advance the knowledge of masonry. We very much
appreciate this additional, and much needed support, and
accordingly recognize them by listing their names in TMS
News, TMS Journal and on our
Website.
Many thanks to them for their continued support of The
Masonry Society. |
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