BAC Local 1 PA/DE Demonstrates Bricklaying at Philadelphia’s Carpenters Hall

In May, BAC Local 1 PA/DE — in collaboration with the International Masonry Institute, the Employing Bricklayers Association, Williamson College of the Trades, and signatory contractor Joseph Dugan, Inc. — demonstrated bricklaying at the Historical Craft and Trades Fair at Philadelphia’s historic Carpenters Hall.

BAC apprentices and students from Williamson College of the Trades demonstrated traditional bricklaying techniques to the public touring the historic site, while Joe Healy from Joseph Dugan, Inc. displayed traditional masonry tools.

BAC has a historic connection to Carpenters Hall — the Bricklayers Company or Bricklayers Society, which was the precursor to BAC Local 1 PA/DE, met at Carpenters Hall when they began organizing in the late 1700s.