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CARPET CASE STUDY: AIMIA CORPORATE OFFICE CIM PERSPECTIVE An Introduction to ACI What can ASTM do for you? SPRING 2018 Vol 13 No. 3 Carpet, Underlayments & Adhesives INSTALL Warranty Contractor, Sonus Interiors, Inc. Interiors, Sonus Contractor, Warranty INSTALL The Offi cial Publication of FCICA Photo credit: WWW.FCICA.COM Meet the MRS. The perfect skimcoat for our moisture-resistant product family Planiprep ® MRS Moisture-Resistant Skimcoat with high compressive strength • Mixes easily and applies smoothly • Not affected by high moisture conditions • Can be placed before HVAC systems or interior finishes are installed • High compressive strength for use in heavy traffic conditions Contact your sales distributor or visit www.mapei.com for details. 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SPRING 2018 Vol 13 No. 3 20 26 14 FEATURES COLUMNS 5 Chairman’s Letter 12 Sound Control in Multi-Family Calendar of Events Construction 7 Executive VP Column 16 Substrate Preparation Tips 28 CIM Perspective 22 Prevent Moisture Mitigation From 34 CIM Corner Disrupting Labor Schedules 41 FCICA Insights 26 Case Study: AIMIA Corporate Offi ce ARTICLES 30 Knowledge Share: An Introduction to 8 Product Spotlights ACI 14 Project Profi les 35 Knowledge Share: What can ASTM do 31/36 Business Articles for you? 38 New Products 66 From the Jobsite: Wagner Meters and 42 Recent FCICA News Sitefotos Partner to Benefi t Flooring 48 Member News Professionals 58 Industry News 4 The Flooring Contractor Magazine Spring 2018 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER OSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard for Construction and the Flooring Contractor BY MIKE NEWBERRY On September 23, 2017, OSHA began but I have spent some time trying to gain an action to correct. enforcing the new standard OSHA 1926.1153 understanding of it and how it will impact • Every contractor is required to have a Writ- for Respirable Crystalline Silica. It went into our installation practices. Here are a few key ten Exposure Control Plan that consists of effect on June 23, 2017 but enforcement was facts from the standard that you should be at least a description of the tool and task postponed until the September date. aware of as you work to be compliant. being performed; a description of your For those of us who have been around • OSHA established a new action level control measures including work practices, the flooring industry long enough to for exposure at 25 micrograms over an engineering controls and respiratory pro- remember the impact the regulation 8-hour time weighted average. The new tection; the methods you will use to clean surrounding asbestos in construction you action level exposure limit is 10 times the equipment and your procedures to will recall a similar reaction our industry. lower than the previous standard. restrict access to the work area. Protecting workers from exposure to air- • Within the standard, OSHA has provided • Dry sweeping of the job site is no longer borne asbestos fibers became a high priority a list of common construction industry allowed. You must wet sweep or vacuum and it had an impact on the way we worked tools and task called Table 1. Table 1 lists with a vacuum equipped with a HEPA and the steps we had to take to provide ade- control methods and protection require- filter that meets OSHA requirements. quate protection to installers. The construc- ments for each tool in the table. Unfortu- • The standard also has provisions for tion industry stopped producing products nately, only about 5 of the tools listed are medical surveillance of employees that that contained asbestos so the threat of used in the installation of floor coverings. are exposed to respirable crystalline silica, exposure has been minimized greatly over Many tools we commonly use are not record keeping requirements, important the years. Since we won’t be able to stop addressed in Table 1. You will need to definitions and other information. producing products that contain crystalline work with your equipment and product One of the best pieces of information silica anytime soon, this standard will have a manufacturers to determine the proper about the standard is the OSHA document more permanent impact on our industry. engineering controls and work practices. 3902.07R 2017, called the Small Entity Since the enforcement date of the new • Every contractor is required to designate Compliance Guide for the Respirable standard, many in the floor covering what OSHA refers to as a Competent Per- Crystalline Silica Standard for Construction. installation business have made significant son for each of your jobs. OSHA defines It’s a free publication available at: https:// changes to work practices and spent sub- a Competent Person as someone who www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3902. stantial amounts of money on equipment in understands the standard, can recognize pdf. I recommend that you download this response to the new standard. existing or potential exposure hazards document and use it as a reference guide to I am not an expert on the silica standard and has the authority to take immediate assist you in being compliant. Q FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 3, 2018 MARCH 19, 2018 APRIL 5, 2018 APRIL 26, 2018 SUBExcel 2018 Commercial Flooring FCICA product webinar – FCICA webinar – Communication Tempe Mission Palms Hotel & Conference Center Trade Show Protect-All Flooring & Ramifications of Tempe, AZ Beau Rivage Resort and Casino www.fcica.com/webinars Specifications, Part 2 www.asaonline.com Biloxi, MS Eric Lussier & Cherise Lakeside, Let’s Fix www.fcica.com/trade-show APRIL 10 – 13, 2018 Construction MARCH 1, 2018 NWFA Wood Flooring Expo – https://www.fcica.com/webinars FCICA product webinar – MARCH 20 – 22, 2018 Deep Dive Sika Corporation DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR Tampa, FL MAY 3, 2018 www.fcica.com/webinars Shanghai New International Expo Centre www.nfwaexpo.org FCICA product webinar – GCP Shanghai, China Applied Technologies Calendar of Events MARCH 8 – 5, 2018 www.domotexasiachinafloor.com APRIL 11 – 13, 2018 www.fcica.com/webinars FUSE Annual Meeting - Never ICRI Spring meeting – Miss a Beat MARCH 21 – 22, 2018 Seismic Solutions MAY 8 – 11, 2018 Sheraton New Orleans Hotel ICRI Concrete Slab Moisture Testing InterContinental Mark Hopkins Coverings 2018 New Orleans, LA Biloxi, MS San Francisco, CA Georgia World Congress Center www.fusealliance.com www.icri.org Atlanta, GA APRIL 4 – 6, 2018 www.coverings.com MARCH 18 – 20, 2018 Flooring Education Guild – APRIL 19 – 22, 2018 FCICA Convention – In It Spring 2018 Seminar StarNet Spring Meeting MAY 17, 2018 to Win It Dalton Convention Center Omni Orlando Resort FCICA webinar – OSHA Silica Beau Rivage Resort and Casino Dalton, GA ChampionsGate, FL Update Biloxi, MS www.flooringinspectorsguild.org/spring- www.starnetflooring.com Ben Mack, ARDEX www.fcica.com seminar-2018.html www.fcica.com/webinars The Flooring Contractor Magazine Spring 2018 5 7439 Millwood Drive Western Advertising Manager: West Bloomfi eld MI 48322 Janelle Minghine (248) 661-5015 • f.(248) 661-5018 (734) 340-5211 [email protected] For subscription info or service, Production Manager: please contact Customer Service at: Jennifer Allen-Wise (847)763-9534 f.(847) 763-9538 or [email protected] Email: [email protected] VISION: Art Director: BNP Media Corporate Offi ce: Christopher Pirrone [email protected] FCICA, the resource for premier commercial 2401 West Big Beaver Rd., Ste. 700 Troy, MI 48084 flooring contractors. 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RollSmart.ª TARKETTNA.COM 800.899.8916 6 The Flooring Contractor Magazine Spring 2018 Prepare now for FCICA’s 36th Annual Convention BY KIMBERLY E. ODERKIRK he office is getting ready to travel to Biloxi for the company is in compliance. FCICA Annual Convention and Commercial Flooring New to our magazine is the CIM Perspective column, where T Trade Show and we can’t wait to visit with all our CIMs will have the opportunity to write on a subject of their members. With record setting numbers in many cat- choice. Check out the article by Evan Acton, CIM, with Acton egories such as contractor representatives, Successors and CIMs Flooring as he discusses change orders as they related to a floor on site it will be a great event! prep issue a project. In the CIM Corner this issue, Kelly Fuller In this issue we have included 2 articles to help prepare you for discusses the value of the CIM program and showcases two of our educational sessions.