The Masonry Society (TMS) will meet in Denver, Colorado from April 19-22 to conduct important business that includes meetings of most Society Committees (including those of Committee TMS 402/602). Come contribute to the Society's activities, while networking with masonry professionals at the social events. Click here for more details on the meetings, or to register.  Note: early registration discounts and the hotel room block close on March 20, 2017.

Sponsorship for the meetings is also available, allowing you to promote your organization, while assisting the Society hold down meeting costs for attendees.

The Masonry Society has just completed a project to allow online access to many of its standards and publications through its eStore. Some publications currently available include:

• TMS 402/602 (Building Code Requirements and Specification for Masonry Structures), 2016, 2013, 2011 and 2008 Editions
• TMS 302 -12 Standard Method for Determining the Sound Transmission Class Rating for Masonry Walls
• TMS 403-13 Direct Design Handbook for Masonry Structures
• TMS 404/504/604-16 Architectural Cast Stone Standards 
• Guide for Condition Assessment of Masonry Facades (TMS 1700-12)

Publications are protected through proprietary software that must be downloaded by customers to gain "read access" to the standards. For additional information, or to purchase downloadable standards, click here. 

The Masonry Society is seeking technical presentations for its Annual Meeting that will be held in La Jolla, California from November 3-7, with presentations being given on November 4th. Presentations are to be 20 minutes in length, and should not be promotional. To submit ideas for consideration by the Meetings Committee, submit a title and 1 paragraph abstract along with a 1 paragraph long bio on the speaker to TMS no later than April 10, 2017 to TMS. The Meetings Committee will consider topics during the spring and will notify speakers in June if their topics have been accepted for presentation. 

TMS will also celebrate it's 40th Anniversary at these meetings. We hope you'll join us there!

Over 40 individuals participated in TMS's March 8, 2017 webinar on updates made in TMS 402/602-16 and the masonry provisions in the 2018 International Building Code. At the request of many who were unable to participate in the webinar, a recording is available here. Registrants can also receive a certificate of completion after completing a short quiz on the webinar content for 1.5 hours of continuing education.

 

As reported in earlier e-newsletters, The Masonry Society (TMS) will be hosting a booth and sponsoring two technical sessions at the 2017 SEI Structures Congress that will be held in Denver, Colorado from April 6-8, 2017.  Registration for the Structures Congress is now open, and we hope that if you attend, that you'll stop by TMS's booth to say hello. Click here for information on the Sessions TMS will present.  

 

The 2017 Building Information Modeling for Masonry (BIM-M) Symposium is being planned for architects, engineers, contractors, BIM users, and owners who design and construct with masonry. Presenters will highlight the state-of-the-art in BIM technology to simplify masonry design and detailing and improve project collaboration. The Symposium will be held May 4-5, 2017 at the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers' District Council Training Center in Addison, Illinois.

The BIM-M initiative is sponsored by 30 masonry industry partners in the US and Canada, including The Masonry Society. Further details and registration information will be forth coming on the BIMM web site (www.bimformasonry.org).

 

While it still seems a long time off, don't forget:

June 30, 2017 - Deadline for Nominations for the Paul Haller Structural Design Award, Service Awards, John B. Scalzi Research Award ,and Outstanding Student Thesis Awards.

July  31, 2017 - Clayford T. Gimm P.E. Student Scholarship Application Deadline

The Masonry Society is seeking volunteers to scan photographs and e-newsletters and then to name the electronic images. Unfortunately, photographs are of a variety of shapes and sizes, and are "grouped" by event, and thus cannot easily be "mass" scanned. Likewise, we do not wish the newsletters to be cut apart. As such, each will have to scanned by hand. If you have the time to help TMS out with all, or a portion, of this scanning project, please contact us.

Robert Kudder (TMS Member for at least 20 years), Ph.D., S.E., F.ASTM, Raths, Raths & Johnson, Inc., Principal, has been appointed to the Northwestern University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering External Advisory Board. The board provides strategic review and advice to the department on its educational offerings, research activities, and student recruitment plans which is part of the department's accreditation process.

 

Member

Curtis Annibale , Armature Group

Nicki Buboltz, Foth

Stephen A. Dial, Hunt and Joiner, Inc.

William Freese, Whitten & Borges, PC

Asok K. Ghosh, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Nan Gutterman, Vitetta Group - Architects & Engineers

Ruth Haggerty, Renewable Design

Nathaniel Heninger, California Inspection Network, Inc.

Kenneth Jones, Bernhard TME, LLC

Shashank Mehendale, Shashank Mehendale & Associates

Chris Meyer, Shell + Meyer Associates, Inc.

Brian Roye, NCMA

 

 

Student Members

Ashley Anaya, University of Arkansas

Jacob Eisenberg , Colorado State University

Remington G. Reed , University of Arkansas

Nathan D. Ward, University of Arkansas

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