The Northwest Ohio Structural Masonry Coalition
The Northwest Ohio Structural Masonry Coalition is an alliance of masonry organizations that encourages the use of structural masonry by providing resources and design support to the local engineering community.
The Coalition is founded on the belief that one system – masonry – provides the engineer tremendous design flexibility; that structural masonry is a key component to sustainable design; and that the economy of materials realized using structural masonry results in significant cost savings.
The Coalition seeks to be a resource to the engineering community by providing design assistance, technical service, and in some cases project-specific consultation and hands-on training in masonry engineering software. Our collective goal is to help engineers and architects design buildings that are innovative, meet current code requirements and design objectives while taking full advantage of the efficiencies of structural masonry.
Why Choose Masonry?
Masonry is a strong, robust structural system that can be used for single-story big box stores and warehouses to schools and high-rise structures. The wide variety of masonry materials and availability of trained craftworkers make structural masonry a logical choice. And since masonry is resilient and long-lasting it creates the backbone of environmentally-sound high performing buildings. Masonry has been used to build some of the world’s most significant buildings throughout history – for good reason.
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Design
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NWOSMC TERRITORY
The Northwest Ohio Structural Masonry Coalition focuses on projects being designed and constructed in the 18 counties in the Northwest region of Ohio.
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Project Successes and Industry Studies
The objective of this study was to develop a construction cost model to accurately evaluate the relative initial construction cost of a multi-family building constructed using six different construction materials. Multi-family construction for this study includes traditional apartment buildings, condominiums, student housing, elderly housing, and others. Masonry can be cost competitive with what most people think is the cheapest form of construction – wood frame construction. Using a premium material that provides so many other benefits than wood can supply at practically the same cost shows why masonry is chosen over and over.
Design Resources
The following resources allow designers to develop economical masonry structures quickly and easily resulting in safe, secure and efficient buildings that will last for generations:
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