Understanding Masonry

Provider: Mason Contractors Association of America
Discipline: Masonry Products
Credits: 1.00

This presentation was developed for Architects, Engineers, Construction managers and General Contractors through the Carolinas Concrete Masonry Association and the Masonry Institute of Michigan. Understanding Masonry will take a look at masonry’s:

• Quality of Performance will include the benefits that special inspection for structural masonry brings to the table.
• Cost Effectiveness will take a look at initial construction costs and life cycle analysis.
• Scheduling Efficiencies will examine the benefits achieved by using no-lead time order materials like concrete masonry units in the construction of masonry walls, lintels, stairways and elevator shafts.
• Energy Efficiencies will demonstrate how to open the cavity in a multi-wythe CMU and brick wall to increase the amount of insulation and explain the affects of Thermal Mass on R values.
• System Efficiencies will explain how the new RAM Bentley software can quickly, efficiently and economically design structural masonry elements.

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