Masonry Magazine August 1993 Page. 6
CUT ESTIMATING TIME
UP TO 50%
The ProE professional project estimator is fast, easy to use and accurate. ProE can increase your business profitability.
✓ Bid on more projects in less time with greater accuracy increasing your bid to contract ratio.
✔ Alternates and corrections can be calculated in minutes.
✔ ProE is designed by mason contractors exclusively for masonry projects. It works the way you work in preparing an estimate.
✔Easy to use, You can be running projects almost immediately.
The proven choice of professionals
"I had no computer experience, but in 1-1/2 weeks I could do it all" Kyle Lochonic, Jones and Simpson, Inc. "...it's easy to keep track of jobs and costs...ProE cut our estmating time in half." Bill Anderson, Anderson Masonry. The Summary is great, being able to flip things around to see where you markups really are. ProE is phonemenal! Shayne Jackson, J & S Masonry
CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION:
(517) 694-8981
PROFESSIONAL,
PROE
Project Estimator
TM
2190 Delhi NE, Box 220
Holt Michigan, 48842
CAVITY WALLS DESIGN GUIDE
CAVITY
WALLS
Mail Check to
I guide-$10
MASONRY ADVISORY COUNCIL
1480 Renaissance Drive
Park Ridge. IL 60068
Telephone: (708) 297-6704
6 MASONRY-JULY/AUGUST, 1993
be hit just as hard. President Clinton's promise of protecting the working men and women has now turned into a budget plan that will pick their pockets more than ever before.
I read somewhere last week that zoos are in a financial pinch. The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. is trying to supplement their income by marketing a "sweet smelling" compost from elephant, rhino and hippo manure, mixed with straw and wood shavings.
Some people think it's the usual stuff from Washington-but in a bucket?-Richard C. Matthews, President
Slight Decrease in
Austin Building Index
THE AUSTIN Company's Index of Industrial Building Costs decreased slightly for the first quarter of 1993, closing at 1140.05, a decline of .5 percent.
At the end of 1992, the Austin Index was logged at 1146.05. In 1992, the first quarter index closed at 1142.12.
The Austin Index is based on a quarterly pricing of a standard manufacturing plant and its adjoining office building.
MASONRY REVIEW
COMMITTEE
Richard Felice and Donald Larsen (Co-chairmen), G. Alan Griffin, Mark Larsen
EDITORIAL ADVISORY
BOARD
James E. Amrhein, Masonry Institute of America; Greg Borchelt, Brick Institute of America; Barbara Campbell, Masonry Institute of Dayton; Mario Catani, Dur-O-Wal, Incorporated; Ken Dash, National Association of Brick Distributors; Kenneth Gutschick, National Lime Association; Al Isberner, Consulting Materials Engineer; John Melander, Portland Cement Association; Garth W. Miller, Ontario Masonry Industry Promotion Fund; Colin Munro, Chartered Masonry Consultant; Charles Ostrander, Illinois Masonry Institute; John P. Ries, Expanded Shale Clay and Slate Institute; Robert Van Laningham, National Concrete Masonry Association