lndustrial Building Products Featured In Western Building Indusfries Exposifion

RUILDING MATERIALS for industrial and commercial r,l appliqnlions will occupy a goodly proportion of space at the Great Western Exhibit Center when the Western Building lndustries Exposition opens its 4-day run on October 7.

Recent sharp gains in industrial, commercial, and institutional construction-plus new records predicted for we-stern building this year-make the 1951 WBIE a major industry milestone, according to the show's backers, as the first trade show to include materials for non-residential as well as home building markets of the west. Says Warren Driver, Los Angeles building contractor and Chairman of the Council of sponsoring associations behind WBIE, "The rapid pace of western growth makes it imperative that we have this efificient, three-dimensional means of communications here in our own market area to help us stay competitive in the nation's biggest, most diversified industry."

Ten Associations Sponsor

Sponsors of WBIE are ten associations spanr-ring the reaches of the construction fields: American Building Contractors Assn. ; American Institute of Architects, So. Calif. Chapter; Associated Brick Mfrs. of So. Calif. ; Associated General Contractors, So. Calif. Chapter; Associated Plumb(Continuet on Page 55)