News & Blog

Stay up-to-date on the latest construction news and ASA-HC happenings. Useful information and tools are available to our members whenever they need it. To stay informed, click the links below:

Learn How to Excel at Having Difficult Conversations in Sept. 26 ASA Webinar

Your ability to engage in difficult conversations with customers, potential clients, project partners, employees, direct reports, and bosses has a massive impact on your career, business, and life success. As a construction subcontractor, specialty trade contractor or supplier, you face a series of difficult conversations, on a weekly, if not daily, basis. In the Sept. … READ MORE

TAP INTO ASA: TRADE MANAGEMENT

At Trade Management, we empower our clients by giving them the ability to pay only for productive labor, ensuring maximized profitability for their business. By constructing a solid, seasonal workforce, we reduce unprofitable man hours and hiring expenses, and assist in accumulating higher profits for our clients. As the skilled trades division of the Peoplelink … READ MORE

Building Leaders Development Group (BLDG) Networking Event – Sept. 14

Join ASA-HC’s BLDG for a networking event on Sept. 14, 4-7 p.m. at Cotton. What is BLDG? BLDG connects individuals under the age of 35 who are employed in the construction industry (GCs, subcontractors, architects, and those who provide a product or service to construction companies). There is no charge to attend the event but … READ MORE

Social Media Initiative

This past May the board of directors held a strategic planning session to set the course of the association for the next three years. One of the goals established was to increase the chapter’s presence on social media. A committee has been formed and will hold its second meeting this Tuesday, Aug. 29 at 10:00 … READ MORE

GC COLLABORATION INITIATIVE

This past May the board of directors held a strategic planning session to set the course of the association for the next three years. One of the goals established was to begin an initiative to create a collaborative relationship between ASA-HC and the Houston area general contracting community. Last month a survey was sent to … READ MORE

“REEL IT IN” AT THE FALL FISHING TOURNAMENT

Join ASA-HC on Friday, Sept. 29 for its annual Fall Fishing tournament held in the Galveston Bay Complex. Last year there were 35 teams in the tournament and more than $15,000 was given away in the Calcutta, sidepots, awards and prizes! Have your own boat? Great, you can enter in the “non-guided” category. No boat? … READ MORE

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TAP INTO ASA: TOOL & FASTENER SUPPLY

TFS has been a big part of the construction industry for many years and the reason they have weathered difficult times is because of their commitment to selling quality products @ a reasonable price and treating all customer with a sense of fairness and friendship. The reason we purchase from TFS is because of Ernie … READ MORE

ASA Launches New LinkedIn Discussion Forums

ASA has launched new LinkedIn discussion forums designed to facilitate engagement and discussion for your employees, including project managers, estimators, executives and others, with their colleagues and peers in the construction industry. The new discussion forums, called ASA Connect, are just one more way ASA is providing networking opportunities for its members. The new forums … READ MORE