June 12-15 - AGCTBB Convention

June 16 - Employment Practices Human Resources Roundtable

June 20 - AGC/AIA Golf Tournament

June 24 - Ray Lambright Excellence In Safety Award Nominations Due

June 24 - Safety Excellence Awards Nominations Due

July 14 - Midyear Safety Meeting Featuring Astronaut Scott Kelly

July 19 - How to Improve Your Profits by Reducing Your Insurance Premiums

Building photos of past APEX Awards entries will be posted on our Facebook page. All you have to do is tell us who built the project. To participate, just LIKE the AGC Houston Facebook page and comment on our #NameThatGC posts throughout the summer. Click here for contest rules.

Horsehoe Bay Resort - Texas Hill Country

Last chance to register for this annual event, which includes educational meetings, a golf tournament on Apple Rock Golf Course, legislative updates, as well as the TBB Safety Awards and Outstanding Construction Awards. Download registration form here.

The Safety Excellence Awards and Ray Lambright Award will be presented at the Midyear Safety Meeting on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Register for the event featuring Astronaut Scott Kelly here.

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.

Monday, June 20, 2016

Champions Golf Club

11:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Registration ends Friday, June 10, 2016. There are still a few more spots open to play in the tournament at the beautiful Champions Golf Course. All proceeds benefit the ACE Mentor Houston program.

For further details, contact Shannon Giordano. Click here for team registration and sponsorship opportunities.

Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria

7 - 9:30 a.m.

Save the date! You won't want to miss a Midyear Safety Meeting that will be out of this world! Hear from Captain Scott Kelly, history-making U.S. astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain, who set the record for the total accumulated number of days spent in space by an American astronaut in October 2015.

We will also present the 2016 AGC Houston Safety Excellence Awards and the Ray Lambright Excellence In Safety Award. Nominate a deserving safety professional and specialty contractors for the Safety Excellence Awards today. 

All companies that took part in the Safety Stand-Down May 2-13, 2016 will be recognized!

September 22, 2016

Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria

AGC Houston is bringing the commercial construction industry together—including owners, architects, engineers, and service and supply representatives—in a forum to discuss new construction technologies and understand issues related to adoption and implementation, their effect on company culture, safety, operations and best practices. Event includes exhibitor space. More details to come.

Featuring a keynote address by Scott Dadich, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED (2012 – Present); Vice President, Editorial Platforms and Design, Condé Nast (2010-2012); Creative Director, WIRED (2006-2010).

Call for presentations opportunities. Get details here.

Join the Construction Safety Network! Next Meeting: June 14, 2016 10 a.m. - noon, IEC, 600 N. Shepherd

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. 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.

Visit website here and contact Kim Mason for more details.

As a busy AGC Contractor, you should never be forced to choose between employee purchase control and convenience when it comes to buying materials for your business.

The BuilderPro FleetCard by Comdata is a complete purchasing solution that allows your employees to buy only the things they need to get the job done: materials, fuel and maintenance. It delivers purchase control, savings, and convenience in managing your business’ biggest expenses.

Earn 5% cash rebate on purchases made at Big Box home improvement retailers such as Home Depot and Lowe’s**: 

•Save on the purchases you’re already making for your business, at even more locations 

•Use the card at hardware, home improvement and building supply retailers nationwide. Save up to 6¢ per gallon on all fuel purchases*

29% on select FedEx Express U.S. services

25% on select FedEx Express international services

20% on select FedEx Ground services

10% on select FedEx Home Delivery services

70% on select FedEx Freight services

Each quarter Verizon offers AGC members great deals on products and services. Here are some of the latest promotions available:

 

A $150 instant discount with the purchase and activation of select 4G LTE devices on $24.99 or higher plans. And a minimum $100 trade-in account credit on a smartphone with the purchase/activation of any new 4GLTE smartphone. (These two offers are available until June 30.)

Smartphone offers when you activate a two-year voice with data plan ($24.99 or higher). See a list of all smartphone devices.

The Department of Labor's new overtime pay rule goes into effect Dec. 1, at which time contractors will likely be forced to reduce workers' hours and benefits, according to several trade groups, including AGC. "The Obama administration has placed yet another burden on contractors that forces them to spend even more of their limited proceeds on compliance instead of compensation," said AGC's Brian Turmail, adding that the group would "pursue legislative corrections."

Chamberlin Roofing And Waterproofing raises over $10,000 for WorkFaith Connection at the company's Customer Appreciation Event on April 14, 2016 at Minute Maid Park. As the Astros battled the Kansas City Royals, approximately 350 of Chamberlin’s clients and friends bought raffle tickets, hoping to be the lucky winners of prizes such as a fiddle signed by Charlie Daniels, a CZ-USA Bobwhite Side-by-Side Shotgun and a night at Minute Maid Park. The winners were drawn during the 7th inning stretch and due to everyone’s generosity, the raffle raised $10,240, all donated directly to WorkFaith Connection.

Pictured from left are: David Neal, Chamberlin Executive Vice President; Art Canales, Chamberlin Executive Vice President; John Kafka, Chamberlin CEO; WorkFaith’s Courage the Chicken; Sandy Schultz, WorkFaith Connection President/CEO.

Vitol’s offices, marked by a double-height trading floor, mezzanine, and provocative artwork on the 11th floor. There, outgoing RDA President Laurence C. Burns, Jr., presided over the meeting and recognized W. S. Bellows Construction, Corp.'s Laura and Jack Bellows for the company's 30 years of corporate sponsorship. 

AGC Houston was recognized in 2015 for its 25th year as a corporate sponsor.

Contact Catherine Bezman with your information and photos.

In 2014, President Obama directed the Secretary of Labor to update the overtime regulations to reflect the original intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and to simplify and modernize the rules so they’re easier for workers and businesses to understand and apply. The department has issued a final rule that will put more money in the pockets of middle class workers—or give them more free time.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule to modernize injury data collection to better inform workers, employers, the public and OSHA about workplace hazards. With this new rule, OSHA is applying the insights of behavioral economics to improve workplace safety and prevent injuries and illnesses.

AGC Houston member Tony Stergio, Andrews Myers, PC writes about the effect these new regulations will have on employees and employers.

Provisions call for employers to electronically submit injury and illness data that they already record.

The new rule, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2017, requires certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness data that they are already required to record on their onsite OSHA Injury and Illness forms.

With the final votes tallied, four candidates backed by AGC Texas Building Branch emerged victorious from the May 24 runoff elections in the Texas Legislature and now head to the general election in November.

Those winners—three House candidates and a Senate candidate—have now secured their places on the November 8, 2016 general election ballot after falling short of the votes needed to win in the March primaries. 

The AGC-backed winners include: Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) in Senate District 1; Justin Holland (R-Heath) in House District 33; Lynn Stucky (R-Sanger) in House District 64; and Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D-San Antonio) in House District 120.