AGC of America is committed to providing its Members and Chapters with access to the knowledge and skills needed to implement the electronic technologies that are changing our industry.  The AGC professional staff, in cooperation with the Electronic Information Systems (EIS) committee, implements and supports a wide spectrum of opportunities for Member utilization of new technologies and understanding of the best practices.

Electronic Information Systems Committee: The AGC EIS Committee is made up of AGC contractors and dedicated professional associates who have an interest in information technology and promoting its use to their peers in the industry.  AGC of America leadership looks to the EIS team for both strategic direction as well as pursuit of specific emerging technologies.  Membership in the committee is open to all contractors and associates of the organization.

AGC is collaborating with owners, designers and solution providers on a set of extensible markup language (XML) schemas designed to enable the efficient exchange of electronic construction project information between leading AEC industry software applications.

AGC of America is one of the leading proponents of BIM, which is the process of generating and managing a building information model through the use of three–dimensional, intelligent design information.  The Building Division spearheads AGC of America’s effort to bring broader utilization of this family of project design and management tools.

Other initiatives include:

• AGC eForums
• Best Information Technology Solutions Awards (BITS)
• IT Forum

The AGC eForums are a collection of electronic discussion groups dedicated to the exchange of information via e-mail on various topics.  There are nearly 60 eForums on topics as varied as:  human resource practice and policy, technology, safety and health, taxes and fiscal policy, project delivery, the environment and all of the contracting divisions.

AGC Podcasts and Seminars: AGC regularly produces audio programs containing news and information of interest to the Construction Industry that can be downloaded and played on a personal music player or can be played over a personal computer.

Best Information Technology Solutions (BITS): the BITS competition seeks to identify and award the AGC member firm with the most innovative use of technology in solving a business problem.  The BITS competition is held every other year at AGC’s annual convention with applications being accepted September through December prior to the convention.  The next BITS competition will be held in 2009 at AGC’s convention in San Diego.  BITS is AGC’s premiere technology award.

Technology Showcase: the Technology Showcase seeks to help AGC contractors maintain their competitive edge by promoting a contractor-to-contractor exchange of information, ideas, and real world experience with information technology.  The Technology Showcase is a themed event that occurs every other year (during the BITS off year) at AGC’s annual convention.  The theme of the 2008 Technology Showcase will be Building Information Modeling (BIM).