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June 24, 1922 RECORD AND GUIDE 789 Building Activity Gains Are Noted in Local Territory Weekly Statistics of F. W. Dodge Company Show General Improvement in Volume of New Construction Planned and Placed Under Contract A STATISTICAL report covering local construction activity for the twenty-fourth week of this year shows continued progress in practically all branches of the industry, with an increasing volume of new work being planned and commitments un¬ der contract indicative of exceptionally busy months ahead. These figures, which were tabulated by the F. W. Dodge Company, cov¬ ering the territory including all of New York State and New Jer¬ sey, north of Trenton, show that in the week of June 10 to 16, inclusive, 701 new building and engineering operations, at an esti¬ mated total cost of $22,673,100, were reported as projected or being planned. During the same week the contract commitments num¬ bered 430 and represented a total outlay of $18,427,200. The figures for the five boroughs of New York City also show a steady and consistent improvement in the volume of active con¬ struction. Reports for the week show that in this city plans for 295 new construction projects, estimated to cost $9,493,100, were being prepared and the contracts actually awarded during that period numbered 113 and will require a total outlay of about $10,084,000. New York City building projects planning were grouped as fol¬ lows : 57 business structures, such as stores, offices, lofts, commer¬ cial garages, etc., $1,549,500; 8 educational buildings, $1,068,300; 2 hospitals and institutions, $110,000; 6 factory and industrial projects, $496,000; 7 public works and public utilities, $375,000; 5 religious and memorial edifices, $155,000; 208 residential operations, including apartments, flats and tenements and one- and two-family dwellings, $5,727,300 and 2 social and recreational buildings, $12,000. Among the 113 projects for which contracts were awarded during the twenty-fourth week of this year were 25 business buildings of various types, $3,465,000; 1 educational project, $35,000; 1 hospital, $19,100; 3 factory and industrial buildings, $265,000; 4 public build- in.gs, $735,000; 6 public works and public utilities, $116,600; 4 religious and memorial structures, $250,000; 67 residential buildings such as multi-family and one- and two-family houses, $5,181,300 and 2 social and recreational projects, $17,000. PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES. WUder & WTiite, architects, have moved their oflices from 50 Church street to 16 East Forty-flrst street. International Time Recording Company has moved its Brooklyn offlce from 32 Court street to 23 Flatbush avenue. Lee & Hewitt, architects and engineers, have moved their offices from 25 Broad¬ way to 53 Park Place. Harold E. Paddon, architect, has moved his offlce from 2S0 Madison avenue to Thirty-sixth street and Broadway. Frank G. Lippert, architect, formerly at 5 Beekman street. Is now located at 47 West Thirty-fourth street. Charles DoTrning; Lay, landscape archi¬ tect and town planner, announces the re¬ moval ot his offlees to the Architects' Building:, 101 Park avenue. M. Bernard Adler, architect, has moved his offlce from 217 Havemeyer street, Brooklyn, to 236 West Fifty-fifth street, Manhattan. W. 1. Shervrood, formerly with William Vogel & Bros., Inc., manufacturers of sheet metal products, has opened an office as a consultingr engineer in metal fabrica¬ tion at 30 Church street. Wyckoff Enginecriniir Corporation has moved its headquarters from 233 Broad¬ wav to 56 West 45th street In order to obtain room for the necessary expansion of the activities of the firm. Dykes Lumber Coinpany announces the opening of a branch yard at 702 to 708 Clinton street. Hoboken, N. J., which was formerly conducted as the Farr Lumber Company. This is the fourth yard of the Dykes Lumber Company. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., June 21. Judge Gary has been a trustee of the university for thirty years. May .Structural Sales at 8S Per Cent. Sales of fabricated structural steel dur- inp May amounted to 82 per cent of fab¬ ricating capacity, according to reports made to the DepartnU'nt of Commerce by firms comprisint; 70 per cent of the fabri¬ cating capacity of the United States. The May business reported by 82 firms, hav¬ ing a capacity of 130.GOO tons, totaled 106.020 tons as against ,\pril sales of these s.'iino firtiis amounting to 121,211 tons, or at the rate of 93 per cent of capacity. Total sales throughout the United States, based on the reported per¬ centage and a total capacity of 180.000 tons, amounted to 146,900 tons in May, ^vhile revised figures for April give a total of 165.900 tons. The April figures are based on reports from S7 firms, hav¬ ing a total capacity of 132.600 tons, whose sales amounted to 122,198 tons, or at the rate of 92 per cent of capacity. were with pre- Preservation of Timber The increased demand for permanent timber structures is shown in a recent report of the Service Bureau of the .\merican Wood Preservers' Association. Over 2,400,000,000 board teet of timber for various purposes were pressure treated in 1921 by the 122 wood preserv¬ ing plants in operation throughout the United States, thereby suiT)assing the 1920 record by nearly 17 per cent. Approximately equal amounts treated with coal-tar creosote and zinc chloride, the standard wood servatives. To treat this wood 51,375,360 pounds of zinc chloride, with an absorption of one- half pound per cubic foot, and 79,384,326 gallons of creosote, with an absorption of 5 to over 20 pounds per cubic foot, were requqired. Ease of handling and the permanence of well-treated wood at low cost are given as the reason for the increased demand. The proper use of a wood preservative adds a new quality to timber which enhances its value as a construction material. The m.aterial treated consisted mainly of construction timbers for wharf, bridge, highway, mining and building purposes, piling, telephone and power poles, ties, fence posts, wood blocks for street pav¬ ing and for factory floors, and timber for miscellaneous uses. Simpliflcntion of Materials Simplification of building materials as a means of eliminating waste In industry was discussed at a recent conference held between officials of the Department " of Commerce and representatives of archi¬ tectural, engineering and building organi¬ zations. The meeting expressed itself as being in full accord with Secretary Hoover's program for elimination of waste as a major means to the stimula¬ tion of American business. In selecting the items of building materials to be given attention first, the following were desig¬ nated: Mill work, plumbing, heating, in¬ terior wall construction, hardware, light¬ ing fixtures, clay products, the latter in¬ cluding brick, tile and all kinds of terra cotta, sewer pipe, and so forth. In giving these items attention the department will form sub-committees to bring together the manufacturers and others having to do with each particular commodity or service. TRADE AND TECHNICAL SOCIETY EVENTS. National Board of Jurisdictional Atvards will hold its annual meeting at Atlantic City, July 6. Portland Cement Association will hold its annii.al convention at the Hotel Tray¬ more. Atlantic City, June 27 and 28 in¬ clusive. Refractories Mannfactnrers' Association will hold its annual convention at Atlantic City, June 28 and 29, inclusive. Head¬ quarters will be at the Hotel Traymore. Wall Paper Manufacturers' A.ssocia- tion of the I nited States will hold its an¬ nual convention at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, during the week begin¬ ning July 31. National Council of Ligrhtingr Fixture Manufacturers will hold its midsummer convention at Cleveland, June 28 and 29 inclusive. The program for this meeting is now being arranged. Anterlcan Society for Teatingr Haterlala will hold Its twenty-flfth annual meetlnc at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, At¬ lantic City, June 26 to July 1, Incluilve. National Ornamental Glaus Manafac- turers' Association will hold its annual convention at Cincinnati, O., June 26 and 27, inclusive. American Institute of Electrical En- erineers will hold its annual convention at the Clifton Hotel, Niagara Falls, June 26 to 30, inclusive. New York State Retail Hardware As¬ sociation will hold its annual convention and exposition at Rochester, February 20 to 23, inclusive, next year. Headquarters will be established at the Powers Hotel. Sessions and exposition will be held at Exposition Park. New York Building Superintendents' As¬ sociation will held its annual picnic and field day at Karatsonyi's, Glenwood Land¬ ing, L. I., Thursday, June 29. A large boat has been chartered for the transpor¬ tation of members, their families and their guests to the park. An excellent dinner will be served, after which there will be a baseball game and an interesting pro¬ gram of field sports. Further details of the program will be announced later. Illuminating Engineering Society will hold its annual convention in Boston, September 25 to 28 inclusive. This will be the sixteenth annual gathering of the society, and the convention arrangementB are in the hands of a committee of which C. L. Edgar, president of the Edison Elec¬ tric Illuminating Company of Boston. Is chairman; H. P. Wallace, vice-chairman and J. Daniels, secretary.