BACCodeofConduct:The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers 2005 Convention passed a resolution endorsing the following BAC Code of Conduct: As a member of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, I will uphold the code of conduct embedded in our Union’s name – IUBAC: I will come to work on time prepared to give my employer a fair day’s work for a fair wage, and to work to the highest standards.

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For BAC members, the Code is a commitment to look out for their fellow members, and to work to the highest standard. It is an acknowledgement that as professional craftworkers they take pride in their work, and that doing less than their best work could jeopardize the work or safety of others on the job. For BAC signatory contractors, the Code recognizes their responsibility to provide a work environment for craftworkers conducive to producing the highest quality work, productively, by delivering the proper materials and tools on schedule, and by ensuring a safe work environment. Equally as important is their recognition that these craftworkers – BAC members – deserve to be treated with the respect their skills merit.

For BAC officers and leaders, the Code represents an obligation to make sure promises on both sides are kept. This is done by providing members with the best training, by committing to supplying signatory contractors with a quality workforce made up of individuals who understand the important role they play in making sure that projects are completed on time and within budget, by ensuring that members are treated with respect, provided safe working conditions, and paid wages and benefits commensurate with their productivity and the quality work they perform, and by setting the example in adhering to the Code of Conduct.

200 AD Ancient Romans build the Pantheon. Its 142-foot dome is made of an early form of concrete that likely used lime and volcanic sand found near Mount Vesuvius. Common concrete additives are milk, animal fat and … blood! 1779 Progress at last! Advances in concrete were lost during the Dark Ages, but inventor Bry Higgins turns the tide by snaring a patent for concrete stucco. 1824 British stonemason Joseph Aspdin makes a kiln-fired mixture of clay and ground limestone on the Isle of Portland, dubbing his creation “Portland cement.” It becomes the main ingredient in modern concrete. 1854 Plasterer William B. Wilkinson builds the first reinforced concrete home in England, using iron bars and wire rope to construct a two-story servant’s cottage. 1871 to 1875 American engineer Willliam E. Ward and architect Robert Mook design and build Ward’s Castle, the first ‘landmark’ building made from reinforced concrete in Port Chester, New York. Made to resemble stone, the structure still stands today.

1908

That's because Chumsky's innocent-looking suburban residence is a handyman's nightmare. It also stands as a monument to one of the most colossal flops in the history of scientific innovation. It is one of a dozen surviving examples of Thomas Edison's worst invention ever: the single-piece cast-concrete house.

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Union, New Jersey, becomes the site of the country’s first collection of concrete homes. Designed and built by Thomas Edison, all 11 homes are still in use today. However, Dolores Chumsky's house leaks. There's no way to fix it. "Just try and get someone to come and make repairs," laments the Union, N.J., resident. "They may come in once, but they never come back."

Edison's concrete houses aren't quite as well-known as, say, the incandescent bulb, the phonograph, or the motion picture. Yet the great inventor devoted nearly as much time and effort to them as he did to any of his better-known discoveries. He even dreamt of a future in which millions of Americans would not only live in concrete houses, but also sleep on concrete beds and play music on concrete pianos. 1915 Lose that gray: Colored concrete becomes a reality through L.M. Scofield, later making its way into the homes of Charlie Chaplin and Frank Lloyd Wright. 1930s Chemicals that put air bubbles into concrete are added for the first time, helping the building material resist damage from freezing and thawing. mid-1960s The Bomanite process is developed by Brad Bowman in Monterey, California, allowing for decorative, colored, textured, and imprinted concrete to be made on-site. Bomanite is a private company headquartered in Madera, California, founded in 1970 by Brad Bowman, the creator of the Bomanite process for coloring and imprinting decorative concrete paving, Dan Sieben, a freshly-returned Peace Corps volunteer, and Frank Shallenberger, a Stanford Business School professor. Today Bomanite can be found at hotels, shopping centers and homes in almost every country of the world. Brad Bowman, an artist by nature, a concrete contractor by profession and a camouflage expert in World War II, conceived “ornamented concrete” (Bowman’s phrase) in the early 1960s by creating cast-aluminum cookie cutter-like tools to impress the patterns of brick, tile and cobblestone in freshly placed concrete flatwork. He practiced and improved the idea by imprinting patterns in wet sand on the beach at the end of Ocean Avenue in Carmel, California, and soon found himself installing ornamented concrete driveways for luxury homes on the 17-Mile Drive and sidewalks in Carmel.

Over time new products and techniques were introduced, most of them conceived by the franchisees themselves. Various other companies have introduced competitive products, giving architects, landscape architects and builders a variety of sources for architectural paving and flooring. Indeed, a new industry—Architectural Concrete Paving—was created as the result of Brad Bowman’s invention.

Be Union through and through – loyal to, and respectful of, my brothers and sisters in the trade and the labor movement. Work Better because I have received the finest, most comprehensive masonry-trowel trades training in North America. Willingly Accept responsibility for the quality of my work and behavior on the job. And always be Committed to growing the unionized masonry-trowel trades industry for current and future generations.

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The company, originally headquartered in Palo Alto, California, grew rapidly by franchising, the very first two franchises consisting of Sullivan Concrete Textures and Bay Area Concretes, established concrete contractors around the world and promoting Bomanite as a cost-effective design tool with near infinite possibilities for employment of color, pattern and texture in the creation of decorative concrete paving and flooring.

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