Western Specialty Contractors As the largest masonry contractor in the US, it boasts 30 offices, more than 1,000 employees, and well over $100 million in annual revenue. Western is best known for its building restoration work.

Masonry workers, also known as masons, use bricks, concrete and concrete blocks, and natural and manmade stones to build walkways, walls, and other structures.

Concrete is a construction material consisting of conglomerate gravel, pebbles, broken stone or slag in a mortar or cement matrix. Masonry is building and fabricating in stone, clay, brick, or concrete block. Masonry also refers to the building units (stone, brick, etc.) themselves.

Masonry Work involves all of the following skills: Laying bricks and blocks. Chimney building and repairs. Tuck-pointing deteriorated mortar joints and replacing shaled, or porous bricks (restoration) Laying stone with mortar, or dry stacking.