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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.
May 12 - AGC TBB Safety Committee
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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 12, 2016
AGC Houston
5 - 10 p.m.
6 p.m. - Tournament starts
Spectactors: $25
Thanks for supporting our CLC Texas Hold'Em Tournament. We are sold out but yo can still come and watch the action!
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Thursday, May 12
AGC Central Texas
4500 West 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.
Please join us on the green at Champions Golf Course for the 2016 AGC/AIA Golf Tournament. Rescheduled due to the recent flooding, there are lots of opportunities to be part of this 21st annual industry event.
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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New Members |
The following companies recently joined AGC Houston. Please consider contacting them for your business needs.
Hargrave Electric Co., Inc.
Lee Manning
(281) 955-5491
1421 Hargrave Rd.
Houston, Texas 77070
International Cooling Tower, Inc.
Lenka Handl
(281) 479-3255
407 Independence Pkwy South
La Porte, Texas 77571-5200
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Membership Benefits |
Dividends for Houston Chapter Members in 2015 totaled more than $6.8M!
Texas AGC Members who are actively enrolled in the CompGroup AGC Safety Group and had a loss ratio under 60 percent received more than $6.8 million in dividends last year.
Benefit from financial strength and superior loss control program. Managed by a board composed of CompGroup AGC members—Texas-based general contractors and subcontractors—it is a TDI-approved workers compensation purchasing group. CompGroup AGC is a registered safety group formed to administer the workers’ compensation program on behalf of the members of the Texas Chapters of the Associated General Contractors of America, Inc.
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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!
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AGC News |
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing regulatory changes related to stormwater discharge on construction projects on sites of at least one acre. This article outlines the most noteworthy changes and notes that they "could significantly increase the time, effort, and resources required to comply with stormwater management obligations. Moreover, those construction operators not familiar with the new obligations risk potentially debilitating enforcement actions from permitting agencies." You have until May 26 to comment on the proposal.
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More than $53 million worth of construction lobbying efforts last year tried to effect changes related to regulatory issues, tax policy and highway funding. Construction trade groups and private companies led the efforts.
"You try to make sure that the vast majority of what [legislators are] hearing is from people who are really experts in the issue," said Jeffrey Shoaf, AGC of America's senior executive director for government relations. "They hear a lot from people who aren't necessarily experts who have a solution to a perceived problem rather than a sound solution to a demonstrated, significant problem."
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Despite Monthly Slowdown, Construction Hiring Outpaced Overall Jobs Market On a Year-Over-Year Basis, New AGC Career Center Will Help Firms Find Qualified Workers Amid Growing Labor Shortages Construction employment rose in April by 1,000 for the month and 261,000 for the year as mild winter weather and labor shortages impacted the early spring hiring season for many firms, according to an analysis by Associated General Contractors of America.
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Member News |
The AGC Houston family mourns the passing of Dave Chapman, 1998 Chapter President and Honorary Life Member. Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Dave graduated from Rice University with a degree in architecture in 1953. At Rice he met and married his classmate Erminie Chambers. He began his lifelong career in construction by working for his father-in-law, Dunbar Chambers, at Farnsworth & Chambers. Upon Chambers' death, Dave co-founded Warrior Construction, which was later sold to Zapata.
In 1971 he left Zapata to found the Mayan Group, which provided construction management services on a variety of projects throughout the Southwest, including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts Brown Pavilion. He later sold Mayan to Gilbane Building Company where he remained as Vice President – Southwest Division until his retirement.
A memorial service was held May 8, 2016 at the Houston Country Club. AGC Houston extends its deepest sympathies to Dave Chapman's family, friends and colleagues.
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 AGC Houston contractor members are aligning their safety stand-down demonstrations from May 2-13, 2016 to support OSHA's National Fall Prevention Safety Stand-Down. Each year, falls consistently account for the greatest number of fatalities in the construction industry. AGC Houston's Safety Committee extended the national one-week event to two weeks so that more companies can participate and expose workers to safety tool box talks and demonstrations.
Many AGC Houston
members are providing free services to
demonstration jobsite safety. For a full list of these safety consultants,
please click here.
Please send Kim Mason your completed Safety Stand-Down
sign in sheets and photos! We will report to OSHA the total number of companies that participated.
For English Safety Stand
Down form, click here. For Spanish Safety Stand Down
form, click here.
Numerous free materials and resources are available from OSHA (available in several languages) at www.osha.gov/stopfalls.
On Friday, April 15, 2016, members of the JE Dunn Construction team attended the grand opening celebration of the 302-room Westin at The Woodlands Hotel in The Woodlands. Overlooking the Waterway, the 13-level building features 24,000 square feet of meeting space, an outdoor pool, a workout studio, a business center, retail restaurants, lobby bar and a second-level pool deck that connects to the fountains at Waterway Square.
An atrium-like foyer is the focal point of the highly flexible meeting and events level, which opens onto a waterside terrace on one end and the 6,000-square-foot Edgewater Ballroom on the other. The hotel was designed by Boston-based Elkus Manfredi Architects and the Houston office of Gensler. The project was developed by The Howard Hughes Corporation and Westin Hotels & Resorts.
Pictured from left are Missy and Charlie Holliday, Senior Project Manager; Natasha Blonski, Business Development; and Michael Blakemore, Vice President.
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Here's Looking At You |
AGC Houston members headed to Crisp restaurant in The Heights on May 5 for the second networking mixer of the year. The group of 100+ members spent the late afternoon outside, enjoying the gorgeous weather.
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News You Can Use |
This new network is an alliance of Houston construction companies, associations, and related businesses that have created an organization to generate safety awareness throughout all ranks of the construction industry. These like-minded partners recognize that many businesses and small contractors may not have the safety resources and support as that of larger entities.
The Construction Safety Network - Houston Chapter is assisted by OSHA and provides safety information and outreach to all companies and their workers, regardless of size, structure, or affiliation.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a final rule that updates requirements for personal protective equipment (PPE) for workers in general industry, shipyards, longshoring, marine terminals and construction.
The final rule reflects current national consensus standards, and ensures that workers can use up-to-date eye and face protection.
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Responding to a complaint, OSHA inspected the Houston worksite of Alfa Laval Inc. in October 2015. OSHA cited the global technologies manufacturer for eight serious, three repeated and two other violations. The repeated citations were for exposing workers to struck-by and amputation hazards by failing to implement an energy control program that included training, procedures or periodic inspections. The same or similar violations were cited in an August 2011 inspection at Alfa Laval’s facility in Lykens, Pa., and in a May 2012 inspection at the company’s facility in Wood Dale, Ill.
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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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