Identifier: architectenginee1030sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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scounts and othercharges were figured in. The president said the building and loan associa-tions have been of great service in home financing, butwere inadequate to carry the burden without aid. The curtailment of home building construction, hesaid, was a notable cause of unemployment in thebuilding trades. Secretary Lamont will head the planning commit-tee and John M. Gries, chief of the division of build-ing and housing of the Commerce Department, willbe executive secretary. UNLICENSED CONTRACTORS TAKE HEED According to J. R. Shields, Building Inspector ofSacramento, that city has set an e.xample for all othercities of California by announcing that it will supportthe Registrar of Contractors in the enforcement of theState laws regulating the practice of architecture andcivil engineering and providing for the registration ofcontractors. Permits will not be issued to unlicensedcontractors. Sacramento will require not only con- COWING Pressure Relieving JOINT Patented September 1,19S 5
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e; OHIO BANK BUILDING AT TOLEDOMills, Rhines, Ballman and NordhoFf, Architects Architects Adopt This PositiveMethod oF Insuring Great Facades THE Cowing Joint is installed in the col-umns and weight carrying mullions at amortar course. Its purpose is to relieve pres-sure thrown on the facing material by com-pression of steel, temperature changes,vibration and wind stresses. Experience hasproved that these severe stresses, unlessrelieved, will crush and break the stone,terra cotta or marble. Where the Cowing Joint is installed ateach story height the building is completelyInsured against cracks and spalls, the mortarjoints 6rz protected from crushing and themaintenance cost of tuck-pointing is elimi-nated. The facade is in no manner weakenedbecause the Cowing Joint carries the normalweight of the facing material and compressesonly enough to relieve the stress. See SWEETS Catalogue Cowing Pressure Relieving Joint Co. S26 WEST SUPERIOR STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 132 The ARCHITi:CT ,„,d E

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