AGC Houston and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are partnering to promote Fall Protection during the 2014 Safety Stand Down June 2-6, 2014. Multiple construction organizations will be supporting this industry-wide effort to emphasize and promote jobsite safety throughout the nation.

Mark your calendar today. Submittal date for the APEX 12 awards is Friday, June 13. A panel of judges will tour the selected entry projects on Friday, June 27. More details coming soon!

Completion of this course meets the requirements of OSHA Paragraph 1926.50, and participants will receive an American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid and CPR/AED wallet card valid for two years upon course completion.

Participants will learn notice deadlines and requirements for filing lien and bond claims; How to obtain forms to use for claims; How to obtain project information; How to avoid project information; How to avoid common problems with lien and bond claims; How to document a claim and what is not covered by a lien or bond claim.

This session will build on the Liens and Bonds speech with an advanced discussion of liens and how they are enforced. The session will also cover a variety of payment topics such as spotting important issues in joint check agreements, the new law related to releases and the Construction Trust Fund Act.

This course covers the OSHA Standards, policies and procedures in the construction industry. Topics include scope and application of the OSHA Construction Standards, construction safety and health principles, and special emphasis on those areas in construction that are most hazardous.

This course is designed to help students build essential lifesaving skills. Students will be qualified to train others in Medic First Aid/CPR, use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), disease prevention from Bloodborne Pathogens, and Infant Child rescue skills and AED applications.

This free training class focuses on preventing frequently cited construction hazards. The Focus Four Hazards in Construction are conducted as four-hour awareness training focusing on the greatest dangers of working on a construction site.

This free training class focuses on preventing frequently cited construction hazards. The Focus Four Hazards in Construction are conducted as four-hour awareness training focusing on the greatest dangers of working on a construction site.

The AGC Houston Employment Practices Committee constantly strives to improve the value of these programs to members. Thanks to EPC member Tony Stergio, Shareholder, Andrews Myers, PC, the Employment Law Summary has been recently updated and contains valuable information that defines your obligations under the various employment-related laws. All AGC Houston members can access this document, located in the Members Only Section of the AGC Houston website, in the Labor & HR Publications submenu.

Leadership and management strategies are essential items for any environmental professional's toolbox. We invite you to join your peers at the 2014 AGC Contractors Environmental Conference (CEC) on June 12-13, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia.

Chamberlin Roofing and Waterproofing raised $10,000 for the WorkFaith Connection with the help of friends and clients at its annual customer appreciation event, which took place in early April at Minute Maid Park. The company matched funds raised in a raffle. In all, $4,475 was collected, and Chamberlin matched the funds by 120 percent to make the total donation $10,000. 

John Kafka, President and CEO of Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing stated, "The WorkFaith Connection is doing amazing work by assisting our fellow Houstonians who have found themselves in a position where they are not able to find and keep meaningful employment because of their past."Sandy Schultz, President/CEO of The WorkFaith Connection, accepted the check.

For more information about The WorkFaith Connection, visit www.workfaithconnection.org.

Houston held onto its No. 5 spot on Forbes’ latest listing of the best cities for jobs. To compile its "Best Big Cities for Jobs 2014" list, Forbes ranked all 398 metropolitan statistical areas using Bureau of Labor Statistics data from November 2002 through January 2014. The big cities list is composed of the 66 MSAs that each have more than 450,000 jobs.

AGC updates and maps the states, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, that have state law authorizing CM At-Risk, Design-Build, and P3 projects through the Construction State Law Matrix at www.agc.org/slm. In 2013, the Matrix reported 10 new states with laws allowing CM At-Risk on transportation projects. This brings the total of jurisdictions with at least some authority for CM At-Risk for transportation projects to 35. As of 2014, 39 jurisdictions now have at least some form of P3 authority. New reference maps show legal authority for design-build, CM At-Risk and P3 state authority under the AGC construction law page.

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

USGBC Headquarters - Green Building Resource Center (Check-In on 1st Floor)
1002 Washington Avenue Houston, TX 77002

Free for all to attend. Featuring guest speakers LIonel Lemay, Ep, ES, LEED AP; Barry Stiles, PE; and Patrick Thiel.

For more than two decades, teams of architects, designers, and engineers have taken their tools to East Beach in Galveston for one of the world’s largest sandcastle competitions. The Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has been hosting this competition since 1986.

The ConsensusDocs Coalition is publishing a new Construction Management Agency standard agreement. The ConsensusDocs 831 Agreement Between Owner and Construction Manager (CM Does Not Provide General Conditions) provides an alternative to the recently released ConsensusDocs 830 Agreement, in which the CM provides General Conditions. The new agreement was created to provide greater clarity in defining costs, fees and profit to avoid potential claims.