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Case Studies

Loadbearing Masonry “Value-Engineered” INTO Projects

  • Small Retail Building: CMU Foundation; 8″ CMU loadbearing; 4″ veneer; 9 columns; less than 4 weeks for ALL masonry; $40,000+ savings
  • Wipfli Office Building
  • Elementary School

Masonry Lintels

  • 52-’0” span at Performing Arts Center
  • 34’-0” span at Elementary School
  • Masonry Lintels at Fire Station

Prefabricated Masonry

  • Veneer brick arches
  • CMU wall panels
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  • Barrel Vault -Stair Towers

CMU Stair Towers

  • Cost & Speed Study

CMU Foundations

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  • Gymnasium Build in 4-Day
  • Gym built in 3.5-Days

Herrman Elementary School 
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  1. This school was originally designed as a CMU/brick exterior wall and the majority of the interior walls and floor system was steel & wall board. 
  2. Our CM/GC/masonry division thought they could do it faster and less expensive than steel.
  3. The CM used the WI Structural Masonry Coalition for preliminary calcs so the CM could put cost/speed numbers to it
  4. When the CM verified they were right, we talked to the structural engineer. EOR agreed with the switch
  5. See below for drone footage – it is a great loadbearing CMU school – still some unwanted miscellaneous steel but a huge transformation a lots more BAC hours.
  6. Then, the structural engineer attended our National Engineering Program in Bowie.
  7. Next week we (Sam and I) will do a seminar at his firm to review their typical masonry details and he even sent another project for us to review.
  8. Yesterday we talked about this project during a 4-hour “Masonry Design & Construction Forum” sponsored by the CM in this story – about 50 people in attendance. They are falling in love with structural masonry solutions which are faster, less expensive, safer, more durable than steel and it minimizes their risk for cracks and call-backs.

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