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Safety
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Membership Benefits
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AGC News
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News You Can Use
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Events |
Thursday, August 6
4:30 - 6 p.m.
$25 - Regular Pricing Ends August 5
$30 - At The Door
This quarterly networking event draws a large crowd of commercial construction industry professionals. Thank you to Joslin Construction for sponsoring this Member Mixer. Click here to register. Free for general contractor members!
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Celebrating its 11th year at the Hermann Park Golf Course, the Construction Leadership Council Golf Tournament swings into action on Friday, August 7, at 7:30 a.m. This event draws the commercial construction industry's young professionals to raise funds for the AGC Houston Scholarship fund. Thanks to all the teams and sponsors who helped sell this event out!
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The AGC Southwest Chapters plan is the largest AGC Association plan in the nation, with more than 70 companies already participating. All AGC Houston members who want to find out more about the 401(k) plan are welcome to attend this special event.
Truluck’s – 5350 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX 77056
August 20, 2015
• Time 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• For CEOs, CFOs & HR with a 401(k) plan
• RSVP space is limited; Please RSVP to Ginger Gray ggray@rwbaird.com or 713-296-8079.
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Open To All Human Resources, Labor And Employment Specialists, Attorneys
Thursday, August 20, 2015
7:30 a.m. - 9 a.m.
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Education/Training |
Do you have up-and-coming young leaders in your organization? This course, developed by young construction industry leaders for young leaders, is designed to create the building blocks for the next generation of construction professionals.
"This program is by far one of the most significant that has been created by AGC to develop the next generation of construction leaders.This immersive development program helps participants become transformative leaders as they gain future positions within their companies and professional organizations."
Bill Scott, III, AGC Houston Chairman, Executive Vice President, Linbeck Group, LLC
Hurry! Application deadline is August 12, 2015. Nominate your company's up-and-coming young professional today!
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 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.
August 4: Unit 5 - Lean Supply Chain And Assembly. SOLD OUT! The four-session course challenges class participants to map the supply chain―looking to minimize waste and maximize value―in a collaborative fashion with all project team members, including suppliers and vendors.
August 26: Unit 6 - Lean Design and Pre-Construction. This half-day, instructor-led course explains the concepts of value-based management, lean in the design process and relational contracting.
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New series of program specially designed for emerging project managers! This five-course program covers the essentials of project management for emerging project managers.
Project Manager Development Program
Module 1: Estimating and Job Costing - Aug. 4-5
This class develops professional estimating skills, including: an understanding of the different types of estimates; the importance of documentation and formatting; and the link between design, estimating and project costs.
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Free and open to all AGC Houston members
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
8 - 9:30 a.m.
Learn how cloud computing can help you manage your construction documents and mitigate your risks by safely archiving critical documents. You've heard the hype regarding the cloud; now learn how it can actually help improve your productivity. This free seminar is designed for general contractors, specialty contractors and suppliers who want to learn about the benefits of using the cloud in their business.
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Safety |
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced the launch of its annual Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers. For the fourth consecutive year, OSHA's campaign aims to raise awareness and educate workers and employers about the dangers of working in hot weather and provide resources and guidance to address these hazards. Workers at particular risk are those in outdoor industries, such as agriculture, construction, landscaping and transportation.
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Essential for the new construction worker, this course will provide an overview of the risk management and insurance profession from the health and safety program perspective.
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The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires facilities to implement robust air-emission-control practices, which are regulated and enforced through a complex permitting process.
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The new standard, which became effective August 3, is designed to help prevent construction workers from being hurt or killed by eliminating and isolating hazards in confined spaces at construction sites similar to the way workers in other industries are already protected. The rule requires employers to determine what kinds of spaces their workers are in, what hazards could be there, how those hazards should be made safe, what training workers should receive, and how to rescue those workers if anything goes wrong.
Sign up today for this special two-hour program led by OSHA's Jim Shelton and a leading panel of industry experts.
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This course covers the OSHA standards, policies, and procedures in general industry. Topics include scope and application of the OSHA General Industry Standards, general industry principles and special emphasis on those areas in general industry which are most hazardous.
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This course covers the OSHA Excavation Standards and safety and health aspects of excavation and trenching.
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Membership Benefits |
The AGC Bookstore has a variety of safety products ranging from basic safety brochures all the way to OSHA regulation books for on-site construction safety. AGC also has several DVD's designed to help keep constructions workers knowledgeable about their surroundings and how to prevent accidents from happening on the jobsite.
Help your construction workers develop a well-rounded knowledge of what it takes to be safe at work with these safety products.
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The AGC Alternative can help your company build a better benefits package—one that benefits you and your employees. Take control of rising health care costs with a defined contribution strategy and give employees more choice and flexibility. To learn more or to request a quote, visit www.agc.org/exchange or call 1-800-210-5290.
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Office Depot and OfficeMax are now ONE company! AGC Members can save up to 80% on over 93,000 products. Great for all of your printing, cleaning and office supply needs. Shop online or in any Office Depot or OfficeMax store.
Enjoy FREE next-day delivery on online orders over $50! Click here to shop online or print off a FREE Store Purchasing Card.
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Through Reliant Energy's agreement with the Texas Building Branch AGC (www.reliant.com/agc), association members receive the following benefits:
• One-stop-shop service to install temporary meters. Reliant requests your temporary meter from the TDSP and can manage the transition from temporary to permanent power
• No hassle temporary service enrollment
• Discounted prices
• Incentives for referring future tenants, friends and family
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AGC News |
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that clarifies an employer’s continuing obligation to make and maintain an accurate record of each recordable injury and illness throughout the five-year period during which the employer is required to keep the records.
"Accurate records are not simply paperwork, but have an important, in fact life-saving purpose," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels. "They will enable employers, employees, researchers and the government to identify and eliminate the most serious workplace hazards - ones that have already caused injuries and illnesses to occur."
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The July issue of Texas Constructor featured a double-page spread about AGC Houston's involvement in the Safety Stand-Down, highlighting several member companies that included Anslow Bryant Construction, Inc.; TAS Commercial Concrete Construction; MSA Safety; Compliance Safety Consulting; HP Safety Consulting; Lonquist Risk Management Services; W.S. Bellows Construction Corp.; SpawGlass Construction Corp.; and AGC Houston's Safety Director Kim Mason.
The positive news story reported on the more that 85 AGC Houston member companies that took part in the Safety Stand-Down May 5-15, 2015.
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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.
• Next Generation of Compliance and Reporting Environmental Violations
• Stormwater: Self-Inspections and Documentation, Work in Sensitive Areas
• Factoring Endangered Species Into Your Project
• What GCs Need to Know about Asbestos, Lead and PCBs
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Because of the accelerated use of personal portable mobile devices being used in the workplace, many companies have adopted policies regarding employee usage for business. As employees access the company network and use their personal devices for company business, many risks can ensue. Read Employment Practices Committee member Anthony Stergio's article on the benefits of implementing a policy related to personal mobile devices and the risks they incur.
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News You Can Use |
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) released a new report that finds more than 20 industries have received exemptions from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate unmanned aircraft systems commercially in the National Airspace System.
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More students are pursuing postsecondary career and technical education, and interest is especially high among those who have explored career interests in high school, some experts suggest. Sub-baccalaureate degrees in areas such as construction, manufacturing and transportation grew by 67.8% from 2000 to 2012, while four-year colleges saw a 46.6% rise in enrollment during that time, data shows.
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The flurry of downtown real estate activity has been fueled by young professionals and empty nesters who want to live in high-density, urban neighborhoods where they can walk to work, eat and play.
The city of Houston's Downtown Living Initiative has further sparked downtown development. The initiative offers $15,000 per unit in tax breaks to developers building multifamily projects downtown.
Sixteen of the 18 projects currently under construction or planned downtown were approved for the Downtown Living Initiative, which is nearing its 5,000-unit cap. Last year, Atlanta-based Novare Group's SkyHouse Houston apartment tower, located at 1625 Main, became the first Downtown Living Initiative project to be finished.
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Willis Group Holdings PLC, the third-largest insurance broker, agreed to merge with Towers Watson & Co. to add consulting operations and help take on larger U.S. rivals.
Shareholders of the broker will own 50.1 percent of the combined company, which will be domiciled in Ireland, lowering taxes for U.S.-based Towers Watson.
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Air Worldwide's latest U.S. hurricane model has new features, including a storm-surge module and loss estimates that reflect local building codes and design practices. The model will help improve insurers' understanding of risks from wind and storm surge for risk selection, portfolio management and risk transfer, says Air Assistant Vice President Tim Doggett.
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The Clean Water Rule: Definition of "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS) was officially published in the Federal Register on June 29 and is effective August 28, 2015. Immediately following publication, at least 18 state attorneys jointly filed three lawsuits to block the rule.
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