How to Enhance Your Business with Early IMI Involvement 

Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 12-1 p.m. ET

Join us as we discuss the real-world benefits of involving IMI early in your project. We'll show you how IMI's expertise can lead to more cost-effective, high-performing designs that increase masonry usage, improve profit margins, and meet the highest quality standards. Through case studies, you'll discover the impact of early IMI involvement on key areas such as rainscreen wall connections, corbel and masonry lintel designs, and prefabrication. We'll also discuss practical solutions for keeping single-wythe CMU compliant with COMcheck based on requests from Mason Contractors.

Plus, you'll gain insights into resources like local structural coalitions and up-to-date quality assurance and control procedures that are crucial in today's market. This session is your chance to learn how partnering with IMI from the start can make all the difference in your project's success.

About the Speaker

Tom Elliott-1Tom Elliott
IMI Director of Industry Development and Technical Services

Tom is a journey-level craftworker who joined the masonry industry in 1985 as an apprentice bricklayer for BAC Local 5 in Cleveland, Ohio. Throughout his time in the industry, he has worked as a journey-level bricklayer, project foreman, and field superintendent on larger masonry projects in Ohio and surrounding states. He also served as a project manager for a restoration contractor and oversaw the restoration of several historic structures.

Previously, he managed his own mason contracting business and helped to negotiate local labor contracts as a board member of the Northeast Ohio Contractors Association.

Tom is a member of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and is a CSI-Certified Construction Document Technologist. He is a voting member on several TMS subcommittees and is actively involved in the ACE Mentoring program. He is also a lecturer at both the Ohio State University and Kent State University and the Chairman of his local Architectural Board of Review and Planning Commission Board. 

Pat Conway-2Pat Conway
IMI Director of Industry Development and Technical Services

Pat is a registered architect in Wisconsin. He is a distinguished national masonry author and speaker.

He is a prolific presenter on masonry wall system topics, including flashing, movement control, high-performance masonry wall systems, air barriers, efficient wall design, structural masonry concepts, masonry drawings and specifications review, modern open-jointed rainscreen veneer systems, creative masonry design, masonry lintels, single-wythe masonry walls, lessons-learned from the job site, and adhered veneers.