| June 23, 2015
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AGC News
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News You Can Use
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AGC Houston is now accepting nominations for the Ray Lambright Excellence In Safety Award and the AGC Houston Safety Excellence Awards. Nominate deserving safety professionals and specialty contractors that demonstrate leadership in safety management today. Nominations due July 8, 2015.
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This webinar is the first of a two-part series produced by AGC of America. Please join us to learn the key differences between the construction standard and the general industry standard, which many in the construction industry have implemented to some degree.
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Please join us for coffee and breakfast, and for an educational seminar presented by ARC Document Solutions on what the cloud can achieve for your business.
This seminar will:
• Ensure that everyone on the project is always working from the latest set.
• Supply the right people on your team with the right mobile devices and apps to get lightning fast at markups, revisions and project updates.
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Each year, AGC Houston recognizes companies that have participated in the Safety Stand-Down and the AGC Safety Excellence Award. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 - 9 a.m., at the Junior League of Houston. This year's meeting will feature keynote speaker Derek Daly, international racing champion, best-selling author and TV's face of motor sports.
In addition, the 2015 AGC Safety Excellence Awards will be presented and we will recognize all member companies that took part in the Safety Stand-Down with a certificate of participation.
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Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, featuring the CompGroup AGC Safety Awards Luncheon and the TBB Outstanding Construction Awards Dinner.
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All specialty contractor firms are invited to hear a panel of general and specialty contractors, as well as owner representatives, discuss how the industry is working together to address the workforce shortage.
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Education/Training |
 To develop the tools needed to build lean, AGC has developed the Lean Construction Education Program (units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7). Construction professionals at all experience levels learn the building blocks necessary to transform their projects and companies into a lean operating system.
June 25: Unit 2 - Pull In Production is a half-day course that introduces the concept of pull as a means to reliable workflow.
July 7: Unit 3 - Lean Workstructuring is a half-day course that introduces an essential component of the Last Planner System, Lean Workstructuring.
July 23: Unit 4 - The Last Planner System is a half-day course that delves in creating six-week look-ahead schedules and weekly work plans.
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CM-BIM candidates must successfully complete the four AGC BIM Education Program courses, provide AGC with record to completion and have approved application in advance of exam.
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Safety |
The AGC Houston Safety Committee will be meeting Friday, June 26, 2015, at 7 a.m. at the AGC Houston office. The Safety Committee is open to all those interested in promoting the safety and education of the construction industry. On the agenda: "Preparing tower cranes for inclement weather."
Open to all members! Interested in attending or learning more? Contact Safety Director Kim Mason for more details.
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AGC Houston is now accepting nominations for the Ray Lambright Excellence In Safety Award and the AGC Houston Safety Excellence Awards. Nominate deserving safety professionals and specialty contractors that demonstrate leadership in safety management today!
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This hands-on course is for supervisors and workers involved in rigging or hoisting operations while using cranes, heavy equipment, truck cranes or other equipment in any industry.
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This course covers the requirements for the establishment, maintenance and monitoring of a respiratory protection program.
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Taught by a commercial construction safety professional, this course provides entry level construction workers general awareness on recognizing and preventing hazards on a construction site. Hurry and sign up your new workers today!
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This course covers the OSHA standards for the construction industry found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1926 along with other relevant policies, procedures, and safety and health principles for the construction industry. Special emphasis is placed on those areas that are the most hazardous and most frequently cited by OSHA.
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This course will provide an overview of the risk management and insurance profession from the health and safety program perspective.
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AGC News |
Is Your Construction Company Facing Worker Shortages? AGC of America continues to hear from many members that the labor market has become tighter since it last surveyed. AGC believes that it is important to continue its efforts to better quantify where these shortages are taking place, how severe they are, and what steps firms are taking to both cope with tight labor markets and improve the supply of new, qualified workers.
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Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar has selected Corbin Van Arsdale of AGC Texas Building Branch to be a member of Hegar's business group that will help develop state tax policy.
Van Arsdale, vice president and general counsel for Texas Building Branch, was officially chosen for the advisory group earlier this month and will attend its first meeting on June 30 in Austin.
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Plan to join your peers at AGC's 2015 Contractors Environmental Conference on September 2-3, in Arlington, Virginia to explore ways to turn environmental responsibilities into successes for you and your firm.
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AGC of America now offers a new, dynamic and cost-effective way for AGC member firms to offer quality health insurance and other employee benefits. The AGC Alternative is a private insurance exchange built exclusively for AGC members.
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Did you get yours? Texas AGC Houston members, who are actively enrolled in the CompGroup AGC Safety Group and had a loss ratio under 60 percent, have earned more than $6.8 million in dividends!
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AGC members receive valuable discounts of up to 29% on select FedEx Express® and FedEx Ground® shipping services, up to 70% on FedEx Freight® shipping services. There are no costs and no minimum shipping, copy or print requirements to take advantage of this great member benefit.
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For more than a decade, iSqFt has given general contractors the online tools to help them work more efficiently and make their processes more cost effective.
iSqFt helps general contractors:
• Communicate with bidders and distribute project information, including documents and addenda
• Manage their vendor databases and understand bid day coverage needs
• Prequalify their vendors
• Perform automated safety and risk assessments
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Did you know one of the many benefits of being an AGC Member is access to our résumé service? To access this service, simply log in to the Members' Only section at agchouston.org to view the most current list.
Interested in posting a résumé on our website? Contact Catherine Bezman to have yours posted today.
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News You Can Use |
Baylor St. Luke's has filed more building permits totaling $49 million for its McNair campus according to a breaking article posted in The Houston Business Journal . The permits list build outs for several floors of the McNair campus, located at 7200 Cambridge St. The permits listed AGC Houston member J.E. Dunn Construction Co. as the contractor.
The Houston Business Journal took a tour of the campus in October, and at the time, hospital execs said the plans were to build out different facets of the campus in stages. There are also plans to build an additional patient tower and medical office building, which could start this year.
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Based on its high volume of STEM jobs compared to other industries, the Bayou City ranked as one of the hottest metros for advanced industries. Ranked by the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., Houston’s deep sea engineering and technology engineering were said to reshape global energy markets and "represent quintessential advanced industry breakthroughs."
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Texas added 33,200 jobs in May, the third highest gain in the nation. Although the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3 percent, a report released by Wells Fargo Economics Group suggests that Texas has so far avoided a recession.
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The following list contains capital projects listed in the approved 2016-17 budget by department. The projects total more than $1.3 billion and reach nearly $2 billion when added to funding reserved for the state's aging infrastructure. Funding amounts for those "deferred maintenance" projects are listed at the bottom.
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About 90% of the expansion work to widen and deepen the Panama Canal has been finished as the project enters its final stage. The third set of locks is 88% complete, and 16 rolling gates have been installed. Now, more than 150 valves to control water movement are being installed. The concrete placement volume has surpassed 5 million cubic yards.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides public access to industry regulatory compliance and enforcement data online. The Enforcement and Compliance History Online website integrates data from EPA information systems for public use.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed and released on May 27 a new and final rule on the water features over which they will claim jurisdiction. The new rule is the culmination of their long and controversial effort to align federal regulations with the latest U.S. Supreme Court decisions and simultaneously make permitting decisions easier.
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