International Masonry Institute: IMI Minnesota/North Dakota/South Dakota

06/04/2022

Always good things happening at the BAC Training Center! Thanks to John Slama, and and all who contrubuted or attended!

06/04/2022

What roles do a strong work ethic, an encouraging boss, and a Broadway musical have in putting a woman in construction on the path to success? Hear from Kayleigh Dietz, tile setter with Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Apprenticeship Training Center - MN & ND: https://www.agcmn.org/diversity-equity-inclusion/women-construction-week-2022-kayleigh-dietz

06/04/2022

How's this for a glowing endorsement?

The International Masonry Institute and the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) have a fleet of MULEs that are spread across the U.S. and are actively training members and future members about MULE usage and its benefits.

28/02/2022

Check out NCMA for all things CMU

The results are in, and by an overwhelming margin, the members of both ICPI and NCMA have voted to unify the two associations. While the election is now complete, there is much to do as we prepare for the July 2022 launch of your new association. Very soon, the unification website will begin providi...

22/02/2022

Check out this Masonry building retrofit case study!

Moran Square is a three-in-one project consisting of two historic buildings flanking a vacant lot that is being filled in with a new bridge building.

16/02/2022

Louis Kahn’s Phillips Exeter Library - wonderful use of brick and concrete

CG Shortfilm about Louis Kahn's Phillips Exeter Academy Library. Footage from "The Third & The Seventh" project for illustrating Mundos Digitales…

11/02/2022

How to insulate masonry mass walls
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgHnbbDrkx/

04/02/2022

Check out our detailing series

The International Masonry Institute is an alliance between the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers and their contractors.

03/02/2022

Air Barrier jargon and how we describe these control layers....https://www.instagram.com/p/CKGyJY4jj6P/

16/11/2021

Meet architect Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1915) The nation's first professional woman architect.

The New York Times has given architect Louise Blanchard Bethune some long-overdue love. Bethune is featured in a November 4 article that is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Louise Blanchard Bethune (185

01/11/2021

Masonry Monday! Check out this Detroit Lakes Home!

Built in the 1930s, the one-of-a-kind lakeside home (which now houses Stowman Law Office) features perfectly cut stone selected for its color, fitted into place, and tied together with colored grout work.

30/10/2021

Congratulations to our 2021 Graduates!

New Class of Certified Instructors Equipped to Teach the Trowel Trades Nationwide