When Ray Sedey came to Dallas in 2015 to become McCarthy Building Companies' Southern Region President, overseeing the company's activities from Texas to Atlanta, he encountered the state's special version of the national labor shortage, exacerbated by a booming economy and the Texas energy industry's manpower needs. Since then, Sedey has become one of McCarthy's driving forces to recruit new talent by changing the perception of construction industry career paths, particularly for women.

The global hotel construction pipeline climbed to an eight-year high in 2018, ending the year with 13,573 projects and 2,265,792 rooms in various stages of development and construction, according to Lodging Econometrics' Construction Pipeline Trend Report. This represents a 7 percent increase in projects and 6 percent increase in rooms in the pipeline since the end of 2017. The U.S. accounted for 41% of the global pipeline, followed by China's 20 percent. New York City, Dallas and Los Angeles were among the top five cities in the world with the most hotel projects in the works.

Plans for construction of a massive cricket stadium and sports village in Allen — a suburb north of Dallas — hit a snag Friday when one of the companies behind the project ended its involvement prematurely, though the master developer said the project will go on. Initial project estimates hovered around $500M, NBC reports. The original blueprint for the sporting village included a 15,000-seat stadium, as well as opportunities for retail, office, hotel and residential developments at the corner of Alma Drive and State Highway 121.

OSHA 30-Hour Construction safety course is intended for supervisors or for workers with some safety responsibility. It provides a greater depth and variety of training on an expanded list of topics associated with workplace hazards than the TEXO Safety First class. Topics include recognition, avoidance, abatement and prevention of safety and health hazards found in the workplace.

Unit 5 Topic: Lean Supply Chain and Assembly is a full-day course that introduces the lean strategies and tools used to deliver materials, equipment and prefabricated assemblies to the jobsite in a manner that facilitates flow.

Unit 6 Topic: Lean Design and Pre-Construction is a half-day, instructor-led course that explains the concepts of value-based management, lean in the design process and relational contracting.

Unit 7 Topic: Problem-solving Principles and Tools is a seven-hour, instructor-led course that describes the Lean Problem Solving Process and illustrates how to use tools to solve problems in a lean manner

Join us next Thursday at T&P Tavern in Fort Worth for premier networking and industry relationship building! Pre-register until 2 p.m. the day of the event to save $20 off the walk-in price. Thank you to our Title Sponsor, Benge General Contracting, and our Cocktail Sponsor, Gray Reed. 
 
When: Thursday, March 28 | 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Where: T&P Tavern | 221 W Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76102