2025 Annual Meeting
2025-10-15 - 2025-10-18 | Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel, 1 N Broadway Ave, Oklahoma City, OK, 73102, United States
The Masonry Society’s Annual Meeting features TMS committee meetings, educational sessions, and opportunities to network with other masonry professionals
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Existing Masonry Standards Committee - Virtual Meeting
2026-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
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Existing Masonry Standards Committee - Mini Summit
2026-04-20
Join the Existing Masonry Standards Committee (EMSC) for a focused, high-productivity “Mini-Summit” dedicated to the advancement of TMS 405: Code Requirements for Existing Masonry Structures. This session is designed as a deep-dive, working meeting to finalize cross-chapter coordination and resolve complex technical hurdles that require intensive, in-person collaboration.
Meeting Objectives
The primary goal of this summit is to transition TMS 405 toward formatting and balloting. Our agenda focuses on:

Cross-Chapter Coordination: Streamlining requirements between all chapters:

Preface – Preface
Chapter 1 – General Requirements
Chapter 2 – Notations and Definitions
Chapter 3 – Materials, Components, and Systems
Chapter 4 – Loads, Load Combinations, Strength Reduction Factors, and Allowable Stress Factors
Chapter 5 – Assessment and Evaluation
Chapter 6 – Durability
Chapter 7 – Rehabilitation Design
Chapter 8 – Construction & Quality Assurance
Chapter 9 – References for the Code Commentary
Annex Materials

Task Resolution: Dividing and conquering outstanding writing assignments and technical “bottlenecks” that have proven difficult to resolve in virtual settings.
Final Preparation: Identifying and tasking authorship for any remaining items to ensure the document is ready for formatting soon after this session.

Attendance & Participation
While this session is open to the public, please note that it is a formal working session conducted under the TMS Technical Committee Manual (TCOM) guidelines.

Floor Rights: Only voting and corresponding members have the right of the floor. Those interested in serving on the EMSC are welcome to apply for membership here (be careful to select “EMSC”).
Session Scope: To ensure we meet our deadlines, discussion will remain strictly focused on addressing specific coordination items and existing document content. This is a “boots-on-the-ground” drafting session rather than a global or big-picture conceptual meeting.

Contact Information
If you have questions regarding the agenda, participation, or require additional information about the committee’s progress, please reach out to the EMSC leadership:

Heather Sustersic, Chair, EMSC hsustersic@colbycoengineering.com
Gary Ogden, Secretary, EMSC gogden@ana-usa.com

We look forward to this collaborative effort as we bring this essential new standard closer to completion.
Registration
You can register for the mini-summit as part of the TMS Spring Meeting or as a standalone event.
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2026 Spring Meeting
2026-04-21 - 2026-04-23
Join TMS in Denver, CO for the Spring Meeting and EMSC Mini-Summit, a focused three-day program bringing together TMS committees and industry professionals to advance masonry standards and strengthen professional connections. This year’s meeting features key work on the next edition of TMS 402/602 Building Code Requirements and Specification for Masonry Structures and the brand new TMS 405: Code Requirements for Existing Masonry Structures.
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Structures Congress 2026 (ASCE/SEI)
2026-04-29 - 2026-05-01
Toward TMS 405: The Journey, Process, and Future of the Existing Masonry Standard
TMS will be participating in Structures Congress 2026 with a session on the development of TMS 405, the in-development standard for existing masonry. The presentation will provide background on the draft pre-standard, its scope and intended use, and the path forward in TMS’s consensus process.
For details about Structures Congress and registration information, please visit the conference website.

2026 Annual Meeting
2026-10-27 - 2026-10-30

15th North American Masonry Conference
2027-06-11 - 2027-06-16
The 15th North American Masonry Conference (15NAMC) will be held June 2027 in San Antonio, Texas.
San Antonio features multi-cultural heritage, warm weather, southwestern charm, and has a rich tradition of stone, brick and block masonry buildings.

The conference theme “The Evolving World of Masonry” conveys the rich and varied history of masonry, its breadth in contemporary buildings, and possible future scenarios as masonry continues to evolve in response to human ingenuity, societal needs and natural challenges.
The conferences hopes to highlight aspects of masonry’s history of durability, esthetics, resilience, and flexibility in is various forms, materials and constructibility among other characteristics that have and will continue to make masonry mankind’s oldest and most varied form of construction.
