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Fire Safety

The United States has one of the worst building safety records with nearly 5,000 people losing their lives every year in building fires.  Why?  Increasing less restrictive building codes.  Click here to let your Mass. State representatives know we deserve better and support balanced design.  Click on the icons below for audio and video messages about fire safety.

Lenient building codes contribute to fires (radio message)

Fire test video

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Workforce Development:  Training of masons will dictate the future of our industry.  NCMA's Workforce Committee has developed a new tool to assist those interested in masonry as a career.  MASONRY-TRAINING.com offers help in identifying training programs and finding potential masons.

  National Concrete Masonry Association (click logo to connect) 

NCMA, established in 1918, is the national trade association representing the concrete masonry industry. The Association is involved in a broad range of technical, research, marketing, government relations and communications activities.  

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Click icons below to hear more audio messages used in our national promotion campaigns.

    Preventing & controlling mold        SRWs reduce highway construction costs Tornado demonstrates need for safer buildings

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