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Dallas/Fort Worth Construction News • MAY 2019
Association Calendar
Content submitted by Associations to Construction News AIA
American Institute of Architects Dallas Chapter
May 20-23: North Texas Building Professional Institute, Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, Irving, TX. For more info, contact Katie Hitt at 214-742-3242 AIA
American Institute of Architects Fort Worth Chapter
May 2: AIA/CSI FW Acme Brick Golf Tournament, Waterchase Golf Club, 8951 Creek Run Rd., Fort Worth. May 10: TCC Building Sciences Expo, TCC South Campus, SETC Energy Technology Center, 5301 Campus Dr., 8:30am-3pm. For more info, email aiafw@aiafortworth. org or call 817-334-0155 APWC
Assn. of Professional Women in Construction
May 15: Ladies’ Luncheon, Tour & Lunch, Champion Waste & Recycling (Tour) 2250 N. Preston Rd., Celina, TX, Lucy’s on the Square (Lunch), 127 N. Ohio St., Celina, TX. For more info, visit www.apwc.us or email info@apwc.us ASA
American Subcontractors Assn.
May 18: 16th Annual Poker Run & Cook Out, Mobile Modular, 2849 E. Main St., Grand Prairie, TX. May 23: Monthly Membership Meeting, Las Colinas Country Club, 4400N. O’Connor Rd., Irving, TX. For more info, call Beverly Reynal at 817-640-8275 ASCE
American Society of Civil Engineers Dallas Branch
May 13: ASCE Dallas Branch Meeting, Vouv Meeting & Event Space, 4445 Sigma Rd., Dallas, TX, 11am-2pm. For more info, visit www.dallasasce.org ASSP
American Society of Safety Professionals Fort Worth Chapter
May 8: Chapter Meeting, TDIndustries, 2601 Northern Cross Blvd. #201, Fort Worth, TX, 11:30am-1pm. For more info, visit www.fortworth.assp.org CSI
Construction Specifications Institute Dallas Chapter
May 9: Chapter Meeting, Addison Conference Center, 15650 Addison Rd., Addison, TX. For more info, email info@dallascsi.org CSI
Construction Specifications Institute Fort Worth Chapter
May14: Chapter Meeting, The Blue Mesa Grill, 612 Carroll St., Fort Worth, TX 5pm. For more info, contact Susan Robinson at 817-202-5744 or email rsvp_evening_ meeting@fwcsi.org DACA
Drywall Acoustical Contractors Assn.
May 2: 3rd Annual DACA Austin Golf Classic, Falconhead Golf Club, 15201 Falcon Head Blvd., Austin, TX. For more info, email Eddie McCormick at eddie@dacadfw.org IEC
Independent Electrical Contractors Fort Worth/Tarrant County
May 3-4: IEC Trade Show & BBQ Cook-off, United Rentals, 5930 E. Loop 820 S, Fort Worth, TX, 9am-5pm. For more info, call Jo Britt at 817-496-8422 NARI
National Assn. of the Remodeling Industry
May. 21: NARI Night, Kohler Signature Store on McKinney,5:30pm New Member Orientation, 6pm Networking. For more info, call Kim Savelsbergh at 214-9436274
NAWIC
National Assn. of Women in Construction Forth Worth Chapter
May 16: Business Meeting, Diamond Oaks Country Club, 5821 Diamond Oaks Dr. N, 5:30pm. May 18: Blue Book Expo, Ranger Stadium, 1000 Ballpark Way, Arlington, TX. For more info, email Lori Donnell at lorid.nawic@gmail.com NAWIC
National Assn. of Women in Construction Dallas Chapter
May 8: Annual NAWIC Dallas Golf Classic, Texas Star Golf Course, 1400 Texas Star Pkwy, Euless, TX. May 21: NAWIC Dallas 2019-2020 Board Elections by invitation only. For more info, go to www.nawic-dallas.org NTRCA
North Texas Roofing Contractors Assn.
May 8: Elevate Fall Protection Training, Texas Star in Euless. May 13: NTRCA 2019 Golf Tournament, Trophy Golf Club, 500 Trophy Club Dr, Trophy Club, TX. For more info, call Kristen Harford at 817-996-6853 or email Kristen@ntrca.com NUCA
National Utility Contractors Assn.
May 15: Safety Learn @ Lunch, Ferguson Waterworks, 2650 S. Pipeline Red., Euless, TX, 11am-1pm. For more info, email Lisa Ferrand at lisa@nucanorthtexas.com PDCA
Painting & Decorating Contractors of America Texas DFW Council
May 10: PDCA/Group 6 Training, Automatic Weapons Shoot, TSDA Outdoor Range, Ferris, TX. For more info or to participate, contact dallaspdca@gmail.com PHCC
Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors Assn.
May 21: Table Top Tradeshow, Ferguson Lewisville, 514 Bennett Ln., Lewisville, TX, 11:30am-1pm. For more info, call Alicia Baron at 817-554-2314 or email Alicia@ phccnorthtexas.org RCAT
Roofing Contractors Assn. of Texas
May 2-4: 16th Annual Fishing Tournament, Woody’s Sports Center, Port Aransas, TX. For more info, call 800-997-6631 or4 512-251-7690 or visit www.rooftex. com RHCA
Regional Hispanic Contractors Assn.
May 18: Day of the Construction Worker, The Briscoe Carpenter Livestock Center – Fair Park, 1403 Washington, Dallas, TX. May 24: Annual Golf Tournament, Trophy Club Country Club, 500 Trophy Club Dr., Trophy Club, TX. For more info, Scott Finley at 972-595-8859 or email scott@regionalhca.org
continued from Page 1 — JBN Electric it, I have a half-dozen people,” he said. Looney kept getting calls from one company after another. “I went from one helper in six years to about 40 employees in the North Texas area,” he said. In 1982, things got even crazier. Walmart called JBN to retrofit their stores and install the infrastructure for their new point of sale system. This is when Looney hit the road, to oversee all this work. He had some 160 employees working for him from Florida to Colorado. (At that time Walmart didn’t go further west of Colorado.) Not to be outdone, K-Mart decided to do the same type of upgrade, and it too hired Looney to do their stores. He laughs in describing this: “I never knew how to say no.” “I lived in airports and I didn’t like that because I was traveling a lot,” he said. By ’92, Looney had done so well that he decided to scale back and semi-retire. He stayed local, and JBN went down to around 20 people. So he thought. In 2004, Looney was called by a mall in his area to do work for it. This outfit then asked him to do a mall in New York, then St. Louis. Before he knew it, Looney had hit the road again, supervising work from coast-to-coast. This lasted until 2014 when Looney’s
first grandchild was born, and he decided to stay put once more. Now, JBN has a dozen employees. Looney has done nothing but supervising all these years and not the hands-on work. Commenting on his being rusty, Looney laughed and said, “I’d fire myself in two seconds if I had to depend upon myself with what I can do with tools!” But the road warrior electrical veteran has no plans on stopping. “I like what I do,” he said. In his time, Looney has seen a lot of changes in the electrical field. “The code book when I came into the trade wasn’t very thick,” he said. “Now, it’s a large volume.” “The business will go away when I’m gone,” he added. Until then, Looney enjoys getting new talent that is willing to learn the trade and make a living from it, something that is had to find these days, he says. Looney sums it up when he says, “I’ve lived a lucky life.” It’s pretty good luck when Sam Walton calls you up and asks you to do some work for him at his private hunting lodge near Kingsville. Not too many people get a call like, and Looney didn’t even have to travel very far to get there. JBN Electric is a full service electrical contractor in DeSoto. -dsz
continued from Page 1 — MAREK end workforce development program and a dedication to the communities in which they work. Commenting on the presentation of this award, Phil Restivo, Vice President, Turner Construction had this to say about MAREK, “We have become accustomed to having motivated, trained and highly skilled MAREK professionals, executing safe, high quality work on our projects. As a partner, MAREK helps reduce our risks and enhances our value proposition for the client. Each morning at jobsites, MAREK employees lead their fellow workers in an important safety practice – stretch and flex. This is just one of several innovative safety, productivity and development measures implemented by MAREK.” MAREK lays the foundation for the future of the industry by supporting topnotch industry educational programs such as NCERR, The Construction Education Foundation (CEF) in Georgia, the Construction Education and Maintenance (CEM) in Houston and school districts across MAREK’s markets. MAREK is also an ABC Accredited Quality Contractor (AQC) and has achieved ABC’s S.T.E.P. Diamond status. Holland speculates it’s their engagement of ABC and active involvement in all
ABC chapters where MAREK operates. “There’s a lot of alignment between ABC’s principals, around free enterprise and the merit shop, workforce development and safety. If I had to guess, we’re big on all those things and that is what ABC stands for. “I don’t want to portray us as we’re better than everybody else, it’s our people. We focus on our people because that is what we are proud of and if we’re safe, it’s because of our people. If we do good work, it’s because of our people. I suppose, it acknowledges that people also value that whether it be our customers or ABC chapters. “Its obvious that the folks at MAREK care a lot about what they do. We want to acknowledge and thank our MAREK team, our employees everywhere and also our partners, our ABC chapters, all of our workforce partners, everybody that supplies material to us and certainly our customers. If they didn’t give us the platform, the work and value what we do, there wouldn’t be a story. Again, we are just filled with gratitude for the people that helped us get there. No company, no person does it themselves. Again, it’s our people, our partners and our clients. That’s our story,” adds Holland. -cmw
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SAM
Subcontractors Assn. of the Metroplex
May 2: Dinner Meeting, MCM Elegante Hotel, 2330 W. Northwest Hwy., Dallas, TX, 5pm. For more info, call Carrie Edomm at 817-266-1909 TEXO
The Construction Assn.
May. 13: 2019 TEXO Golf Tournament, Gleneagles Country Club, 5401 W. Park Blvd. For more info, contact Emily Baker at 214-389-4659 UMCA
United Masonry Contractors Assn. Dallas/Fort Worth
May 15: UMCA Bricklaying Contest, North Lake College, 5-7pm. For more info, email Lindsey Geeslin at umcadfw@ gmail.com
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Interior view Tom Thumb eatery
showcase oiled olivewood laminate. To maximize retail space for customers, fitting mechanical, electrical, plumbing and refrigeration (MEPR) in tight spaces was a challenge faced by the experienced Joeris team. Coordination with the onsite core and shell GC was critical. The Joeris team had to schedule work to accommodate shell work underway by another contractor while completing the interior finish out. Just like any other grocery store, the
Joeris team had to be flexible because of the amount of changes that take place during construction. Store managers often saw an improved vision as construction took place. A “Drive Up & Go” station, the new way to buy groceries, was added midway through construction. After opening its doors, Tom Thumb provided Dallasites living in The Union or traveling through the chance to stop for continued on Page 15