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AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey
94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies
The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More
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This week legislation was introduced in the House and Senate that would remove water and wastewater from under the private activity bond volume cap, making it easier for up to $5 billion to be invested in water infrastructure annually.
Private activity bonds (PABs) or exempt facility bonds are a… Read More
May 12, 2011
On May 12, the Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing on several proposals to employ a BRAC-like process to civilian properties, reduce the federal footprint and ostensibly save… Read More
May 12, 2011
On May 12, 2011, AGC submitted testimony for a hearing held jointly between the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on Small Business entitled, “Politicizing Procurement: Would President Obama’s Proposal Curb Free Speech and Hurt Small Business?”
The hearing… Read More
May 12, 2011
AGC presented testimony at a hearing today before a Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee, which is looking into initiatives to reduce diesel emissions in clean air non-attainment areas.
AGC member Bob Lanham, Williams Brothers Construction Company, addressed various incentives that can… Read More
May 12, 2011
The IRS published final regulations May 9 on the implementation of 3% withholding, or section 3402(t) of the IRS Code. The regulations considered many of the points AGC made in its comments to the draft regulations two years ago but the final regulations gave no ground.
In short, the good news is… Read More
May 12, 2011
Carole Bionda, vice president of the Nova Group and Doug McNames, vice president of contract administration for Baker Concrete Construction, were recently elected to the ConsensusDOCS Contract Content Advisory Council (CCAC).Bionda will serve as chair of the CCAC. She has extensive experience in… Read More
May 11, 2011
Today the IRS issued final regulations for the implementation of the 3% withholding law.
At first blush, it appears the regulations delay the effective date (1/1/2013) providing an extra year before payments are withheld. But the final regs also sunset the exclusion of payments under existing… Read More
May 9, 2011
Many Owners struggle to effectively manage the design of their projects. The process can be complex and unruly; budgets and programs may be loosely defined or tend to creep; and the technical details may exceed the Owners knowledge.
But what if the "lean” principles used in construction were… Read More
May 8, 2011
The IRS issued final regulations May 6 for the implementation of the 3% withholding law.
At first blush, it appears the regulations delay the effective date to 1/1/2013, providing an extra year before payments are withheld. But the final regs also sunset the exclusion of payments under existing… Read More
May 6, 2011
Registration is now open for AGC’s Training, Education & Development (TED) Conference, to be held October 3-4, 2011, at the Crowne Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
To kick off the conference FMI will present the results of its 2011 survey of training & development trends in the construction… Read More
May 6, 2011