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Education/
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Safety
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New Members
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Membership Benefits
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AGC News
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Member News
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Here's Looking At You
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News You Can Use
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Events |
We're bringing people together to advance the issues important to the commercial construction industry.
April 29 - Safety Committee
May 12 - AGC TBB Safety Committee
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Tellepsen - 777 Benmar Dr.
6:30 a.m. - 7:15 a.m. - subcomittee meeting
7:15 - 8:30 a.m. - open committee meeting
The AGC Houston Safety Committee meeting is open to all AGC Houston members interested in safety and health matters. Please contact Kim Mason for more details.
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AGC Houston and the Safety Committee are urging all general contractors and specialty contractors to pause and dedicate time to worker safety and fall prevention during the Safety Stand-Down May 2-13, 2016.
Help mitigate risk by planning a toolbox talk or other safety activity during the Safety Stand-Down.
AGC Houston Safety Consultants Offer Free Safety Demonstrations.
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Crisp In The Heights
4:30 - 6 p.m.
Member's only networking mixer.
This popular event draws a large crowd of commercial construction industry professionals. Early bird pricing ends April 21, 2016. Sponsorship available! Contact Shannon Giordano for details.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
AGC Houston
5 - 10 p.m.
6 p.m. - Tournament starts
There's plenty of action in this game! Open to all AGC Houston members. Spectators and sponsors welcome.
Tournament is limited to the first 50 players - First Come, First Served
Registration Deadline is May 9, 2016
Benefiting the AGC Houston Scholarship Program. Please contact Charlene Anthony for more information.
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Thursday, May 12
AGC Central Texas
4500West Waco Drive, Waco, Texas
All AGC Houston members interested in serving on or attending the AGC Texas Building Branch Safety Committee meeting are invited to attend. The AGC TBB Safety Committee serves the safety, health and environment needs of the state AGC chapters. Please contact AGC Houston Director of Safety Services Kim Mason for further details.
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
AGC Houston
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Please join us for this FREE information-packed luncheon! You’ll hear from AGC Houston staff, active members and company representatives about the many benefits of AGC Houston.
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Thursday May 19
7:30 - 9 a.m.
Open to all AGC Houston members interested in Department of Labor - Wage & Hour compliance issues and HR best practices, this specialized group meets to discuss issues facing human resource and training professionals in an open forum.
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AGC Houston Members (General Contractors and Specialty Contractors) may submit any project(s) completed between April 1, 2014
and April 30, 2016 for the biennial APEX Awards. The process has been streamlined this year and all entries will be submitted electronically. Please click here for further details.
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Monday, June 20, 2016
Champions Golf Club
11:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
In light of recent weather conditions, the 2016 AGC/AIA Golf Tournament has been POSTPONED to Monday, June 20. There are a few options available to accommodate teams and sponsors affected by the date change.
For further details, contact Shannon Giordano. Click here for team registration and sponsorship opportunities.
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June 12-15, 2016
Horsehoe Bay Resort - Texas Hill Country
Calling all AGC Houston Members! Don't miss this annual event, which includes educational meetings, a golf tournament on Apple Rock Golf Course at Horseshoe Bay Resort, Safety Awards and Outstanding Construction Awards to AGC chapter members.
Download registration form here.
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Education/Training |
In March, AGC Houston launched The Walk-Through, a newsletter dedicated to reporting the latest news on our education and professional development offerings. Read it here.
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Safety |
The newsletter brings up-to-date information regarding regulatory issues, health and safety tips, educative articles and updates from the AGC.
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Save the date: The annual construction industry Safety Stand-Down, focusing on fall protection, occurs May 2-13, 2016. There are numerous resources available to plan a toolbox talk, safety activity and training for workers. Numerous free materials and resources are available from OSHA (available in several languages) at www.osha.gov/stopfalls.
AGC Houston Safety Consultants Offer Free Safety Demonstrations
Would you like to have an AGC Houston member company come to your jobsite and hold a Safety Stand-Down demonstration? Click here for details.
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To celebrate OSHA's National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction on May 2, OSHA is offering this FREE course.
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New Members |
The following companies recently joined AGC Houston. Please consider contacting them for your business needs.
Legacy Precast, LLC
Hussein Sinjari
hussein.sinjari@legacyprecast.com
(281) 375-2050
P O Box 400
Brookshire, Texas 77423
Radley Staffing
Allison Radley
(281) 201-2847
aradley@radleystaffing.com
13003 Southwest Freeway, Suite 180
Stafford, Texas 77477
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Membership Benefits |
Horseshoe Bay Resort welcomes AGC chapters from across Texas for the 39th annual AGC Texas Building Branch Convention June 12-15, 2016. Register for the convention here. Book your room at the resort here.
Convention features:
AGC Safety Awards Luncheon sponsored by CompGroup AGC
AGC TBB Outstanding Construction Awards
AGC Golf Tournament
Education Seminars, Networking Opportunities & more!
Offer Details For AGC Members & Employees
Purchase or lease an eligible 2015 or 2016 Buick, Chevrolet or GMC passenger car, light-duty truck, van or SUV.
Available during the program period through September 30, 2016.
Visit General Motors for vehicle details.
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AGC News |
At least seven lawsuits have been filed over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's final rule reducing allowable exposure levels for silica dust. The rule is set to take effect June 23, 2017, for the construction industry and a year later for other industries.
OSHA notified the panel on April 11 that "seven petitions for review of the same final agency action" were filed in six courts of appeals within 10 days after the action was issued, according to a case document. One of the petitions was file by AGC of America. "Administration officials appear to have instead opted to set a new standard that is well beyond the capabilities of current air filtration and dust removal technologies," said Stephen Sandherr, AGC of America CEO. To view more information, including the final rule, click here.
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Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine and Monroe, Mich. Top Growth List; Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, and Bloomington, Ill. Have Largest Declines; Many Energy-Producing Metro Areas Experience Big Losses
Construction employment increased in 234 out of 358 metro areas, was unchanged in 52 and declined in 72 between February 2015 and February 2016, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials noted that many energy-producing areas experienced job losses during the past year.
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Congratulations to the AGC Houston members whose construction projects were selected as winners and finalists. To qualify as a Landmark Award nominee, projects must have been completed between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015. Entries were selected based ontheir impact to Houston, best use of land, site plan, job creation and other factors.
The University of Houston is building a new Multidisciplinary Research and Engineering Building (MREB) that will support the university’s mission to provide Tier One research facilities. Under construction since 2014, Tellepsen is currently finishing the $51 million facility located on the footprint of the old Y-Building, just east of Engineering Building 1.
The four-story, 120,000 gross -square-foot building will house research labs, computational training facilities, visualization lab, high-performance computational server room, and an NMR spectrometer lab.
With this new facility, UH will be able to increase its annual research expenditures to $36 million per year, which should promote approximately $612 million worth of economic activity in Houston alone. The building is expected to open its doors in the fall. View more information here.
On March 31, 2016, Rice University and JE Dunn Construction Company broke ground on the highly anticipated new Parking Garage and Office Annex project.
The new six-story, 66,710 square-foot facility will house up to 295 work spaces. The east side of the building will be connected to a new seven-level parking garage with 450+ parking spaces. The building will feature terra-cotta fins that control the amount of natural light into the offices, while the parking garage will be disguised with leaf images displayed on large plastic scrims attached to the sides of the garage. Located near Rice’s Entrance 3, the new facility is scheduled to be completed summer 2017.
Pictured from left are Lynn Terry, JE Dunn Construction; Tina Hicks and Eugen Radulescu, Rice University; and Emre Ozcan, JE Dunn Construction.
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Congratulations to Anslow Bryant Construction, Ltd. on reaching 100,000 working man hours with no accidents at the Brian Patterson Sports Performance Center Project on the campus of Rice University.
The fully-funded $31.5 million project includes a 60,000-square-foot, two-story structure that will house a weight room, a home team locker room, coaching and staff offices, an auditorium, a football team lounge and areas for training and sports medicine that include hydrotherapy, plunge pools and exam rooms. The weight room and sports medicine areas will be available to student-athletes from all sports at Rice.
View the live construction camera here.
Saturday, April 30
Minute Maid Park
12 - 6 p.m.
Join PPG Pints for a free fun-filled family fun day featuring adult and children activities, vendor demonstrations and lots of giveaways.
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Here's Looking At You |
The AGC Houston Political Action Committee and Government Affairs Committee hosted an advocacy breakfast on Tuesday, April 26 with special guests Mayor Sylvester Turner, Representative Jim Murphy, District 133 and Corbin Van Arsdale, Texas Building Branch. The event featured an overview of the TBB legislative issues at hand, the current state of affairs, some of the current bills being discussed in House and State committees and Mayor Turner's first four months in office.
AGC Houston deeply appreciates Mayor Turner coming out this morning and informing the group of the enormous work the city and counties are doing to recover from last week's floods. Turner spoke of the "good work citizens and public servants are doing under some very difficult circumstances."
Look for a more in-depth article regarding this meeting and photos in next week's Member's Edge.
Congratulations to Gilbane Building Co. on signing an Occupational Safety and Health Administration Strategic Partnership on Tuesday, April 26. The signing ceremony was officiated by Jerry Nevlud, AGC Houston; Jim Springer, Dan Gilbane and Kevin Virag, Gilbane Building Co.; and Joann Figueroa and Mark Briggs, OSHA.
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News You Can Use |
The Fort Bend Independent School District is actively soliciting small business participation in conjunction with the District's $484 million 2014 Bond Program construction and renovation projects.
The Fort Bend ISD Purchasing and Facilities Management Offices is hosting a workshop on April 27, 2016 from 2 - 4 p.m.
Fort Bend ISD will discuss how the school district uses BIM software to improve the project life cycle.
Learn about upcoming construction and renovation projects.
Meet the new small business coordinator.
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Registration is open for this year’s GCG symposium, Apr 28 at the MATCH in midtown. The theme this year is smART Design: the Intersection of Art, Architecture & Sustainability. Keynote speakers are Kai-Uwe Bergmann of BIG Architects and Jimmy Diresta from the FX show Trash to Cash and the Discovery Channel show Dirty Money.
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With a projected 0.7% first-quarter gross domestic product rate expected to be reported this week, few believe the Federal Reserve policymakers will increase interest rates this month. Some experts are debating whether the Federal Open Market Committee will hint in its statement this week that an interest rate increase is coming in June. Many economists believe the FOMC will not want to tighten monetary policy suddenly.
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Imagine looking at a field of pipes and being able to identify them and what's flowing through them. Instead of keeping employees in the control room to monitor data, a worker could be able to tell if a measurement is out of line just by having the camera on the helmet read it.
Los Angeles-based Daqri is developing a virtual helmet for use in construction and other industries. The helmet's sensors and cameras are designed to make the construction industry safer and more productive. Autodesk, Hyperloop and Siemens have already placed orders for the helmet.
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The Construction Specifications Institute is hosting its Spring Conference April 14-16, 2016 at the Hilton Post Oak Conference Center.
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Hospitals are building green, but not necessarily going for certification. That has led some companies like Hammes to pay for the cost of certification. It recently built a $147 million hospital building that achieved LEED Silver certification.
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