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Texas State Association of Architects Year Book 1917
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Acme Brick Co., San Antonio, Texas. Vandever Building Products Co., Houston, Texas. C. H. Ruebeck Brick Co., Waco, Texas In completing the floor of a quay wall at Balboa, a squad of five West Indian masons laid 96,000 bricks in ten hours. The Alamo Iron Works of San Antonio is well known to the architects of Texas and their Mr. Holmgren has always taken a personal interest in handling business entrusted to them. His acquaintance with the trade extends over a period of many years and his attendance at our state conventions keeps alive the personal good feelingwe have for him. The Editor supposes that is the reason he neglected to send in copy for the year book.
Wisconsin Architects to Be Registered An architects’ registration law has been passed by the Wisconsin Legislature providing that after Jan. 1, 1918, no person doing business in Wisconsin shall make use of the title architect, or so represent himself without a certificate of registration. A board of five ex- aminers will have full power to prescribe rules and regulations for the examination and registering of architects. Candidates will be re- quired to submit satisfactory evidence as to their thorough knowledge of building construction, building hygiene, architectural history and mathematics. Five years’ experience is also required. In lieu of examination, the board may accept a diploma of graduation from a recognized architectural school supplemented by at least three years’ experience. Examination may also be waived in cases where an architect is registered in another state or county having satisfactory standards. Any person already engaged in the practice of architecture at the time of the passage of the bill may receive a certificate without examination.
Another one of our contributors, who failed to get in copy for the Year Book, is the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. However, as they state that they will have several representatives in attendance at the convention, we will probably know all there is to know about them and their products, particularly as they intend to have an extensive exhibit. Of course we all know in a general way what they sell and who they are, but as Mr. Jackson has promised to attend the convention in person, he will no doubt explain in detail anything we might want to know. Anything that is standing still is getting ready to move backward. One valuable forest tree at least is withstanding the inroads of axe and fire. This is the white birch, sometimes called the paper birch or canoe birch, since it furnished the Indians the material for their famous canoes. The opinion has been ventured by the Forest Service that more white birch is now growing in the United States than was the case two hundred years ago. It spreads rapidly over spaces left bare by forest fires, but it is a short lived tree and does not prosper where it has to compete with other trees for light and soil. No other wood as hard as birch can be worked with so little dulling of
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Metal Lath
Northwestern Expanded Metal Co.
Metal Lath is a metal fabric designed as a supporting and reinforcing base for any plaster applied to walls or ceilings and for supporting stucco on the exterior of buildings.
There are two general types of metal lath, one known as wire lath and the other as expanded metal lath. Expanded metal is used far more extensively than wire lath, because of the ease with which it may be applied and the facility with which it may be handled on the job.
Expanded metal lath is manufactured from sheet steel of various gauges, the heaviest being number 22 and the lightest number 28. The sheets are built and then expanded or opened out to form a network of meshes. The finished sheets are 18 or 24 inches wide and 96 inches long. The length is actually a little more than this, to allow for lapping at the ends. In erecting metal lath, the sheets are placed with the length at right angles to the studding or other supports. The length of 96 inches works our evently, whether the supports are spaced 12 inches or 16 inches apart.
Metal Lath was first designed to meet the demand for a plaster supporting base that would be suitable for use in fireproof construction. In consequence there are many architects who have the impression that metal lath is only suitable to use in fireresisting construction. Metal Lath has other valuable advan- tages which - and will for streaks and preprevents the The value of hollow and hollow metal extensively more falling Windows metal beyond windows than now and and ever metal occupy their warm in the direct apartments had buildings still windows been from burned the within intense the a metal-covered doubt in metal-covered t hat it hardly needs Association Space ceramic an doors are doors are being apartments protected with of
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of the
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however, may be interested in the 1917 edition of “Architectural Terra Cotta,” a brochure of fifty which “Northwestern” products have been half-tones of buildings in used, classified according to the kind of structure. ..Copies of this booklet may be obtained gratis in the exhibit room, 2525 Clyburn or on. application to The Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., ern”
plant.
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