MCAA Strategic Partners
The MCAA has developed the national Masonry Certification program to provide customers with a tool to assist with selecting mason contractors who are committed to quality.
Without certification, construction customers do not have a method for determining a contractor's quality. Certification provides customers an objective basis to select and specify a quality contractor and allows our industry to promote and provide a tool to measure quality to the design community and masonry customers.
The certification exam will be held at the MCAA Convention on Wednesday, February 3, from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM in LVCC S231 for qualifying mason contractors.
Visit certification.masoncontractors.org for more information about Masonry Certification.
Sunday, January 31, 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM & Monday, February 1, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Level 2, Room S231
$600 MCAA Members, $750 Non-members
Masonry field supervisors need to manage both people and resources in order to have a successful and profitable project. Labor is the only unknown factor on a project, everything else is fixed. Why gamble with your bottom line?
The Masonry Foreman Development Course has been designed to provide your key employees with the skills necessary to become an effective job foreman and profit center for your company.
This 2-day intensive course will teach the key areas of responsibility for foremen such as communication, leadership, problem solving, accident prevention, cost awareness, planning and organizing, production control, and contract documents.
It's no wonder the most profitable companies are companies with the most educated foremen. Enroll your employees today and watch your profits grow.
Lunch will be served to attendees on both days; breakfast will not be served.
Discipline: Ethics & Business Practices
Credits: 20
Sunday, January 31, 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM & Monday, February 1, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Level 2, Room S230
$825 MCAA Members, $925 Non-members
Day-to-day operations leave little time to assess your policies and procedures. You want to ensure your company maintains the highest level of quality construction while earning maximum profits. How do you implement quality standards that are measurable and help increase profitability?
This new-and-improved program will provide you the ability to measure your company's level of quality. The Masonry Quality Institute (MQI) is a two-day course that assists masons in evaluating their services, meeting stringent customer expectations, and improving their profitability.
The course agenda will include an introduction to the quality process and detailed implementations of the basic principles of quality on the first day. On the second day, attendees will interact with the course instructors in discussing the quality process and learn strategies for team building and problem solving.
Lunch will be served to attendees on both days; breakfast will not be served.
Discipline: Masonry Quality Institute
Credits: 16
Tuesday, February 2, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Level 2, Room S231
$200 MCAA Members, $250 Non-members
This intensive seminar will guide you step-by-step through the recently updated masonry specification provisions included in the consensus masonry standards.
Specification for Masonry Structures (ACI 530.1-05/ASCE 6-05/TMS 602-05) and pertinent details in the Masonry Code and the IBC 2006. At the same time, it will cover basic masonry design and construction examples that contractors need to know, using both the Code and the Specification. This seminar is intended for contractors who will be applying for Certification and who use the Specification to erect masonry structures.
Many changes have been made to the 2005 Masonry Specification along with some important changes in the 2006 IBC. This seminar will familiarize you with these new provisions, and how they may affect your masonry construction projects.
By the end of this seminar, you will have a real feel for the Code, so that you can put the new Masonry Code into practice.
Discipline: Codes & Standards
Credits: 4
Thursday, February 4, 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Level 2, Room S230
$400 MCAA Members, $500 Non-members
The new and improved Masonry Estimating Seminar will teach you the basics of masonry estimating. This six-hour seminar will include a step-by-step approach to the estimating procedure including direct and indirect costs, materials, labor, equipment, project and office overhead and, of course, profit.
This intensive course will teach the key areas of responsibility for estimators such as bidding documents, estimate types, estimating mathematics, bid forms and computer solutions.
It's no wonder the most profitable companies are companies with the most educated estimators. Enroll your employees today and watch your profits grow!
Lunch will be served to attendees; breakfast will not be served.
Discipline: Bidding Practices
Credits: 6
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