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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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Dozens of volunteer contractors renovated the home of a Las Vegas family whose 16-year-old daughter is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy that is increasingly forcing her to be wheelchair bound.
The renovation project, organized by AGC Charities, Inc., was the group's second annual… Read More
March 21, 2011
Risk management remains critical to the long-term success of all construction companies and the starting point for risk management continues to be insurance. It is therefore important that AGC has persuaded the supreme court of yet another state to hold that the commercial general liability (CGL)… Read More
March 21, 2011
Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R-Texas) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) announced a new proposal for the creation of a federal infrastructure Bank on Tuesday. The legislation, which has yet to be introduced, is called the “Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for the Long-Term… Read More
March 20, 2011
June 21 COAA Webinar Co-hosted by the AGC Lean Construction Forum
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 owner's… Read More
March 20, 2011
This week, Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Congressman Jim Matheson (D-Utah) introduced the Good Samaritan for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act, H.R. 1145.
This bill would provide construction contractors and other entities limited immunity from liability for… Read More
March 19, 2011
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed - by a vote of 271-158 - a three week continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the federal government through April 8. The vote on the latest CR was much closer than the three previous with the number of no votes increasing by 67 (48 Republicans 19… Read More
March 19, 2011
AGC will host a two-part webinar, April 6-7, to provide compliance assistance training and best practices for federal and federally-assisted construction contractors governed by the requirements of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) – the federal agency… Read More
March 18, 2011
AGC’s 92nd Annual Convention, held in conjunction with the 2011 CONEXPO-CON/AGG tradeshow, will be held on March 21-25 and provide general and specialty contractors with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and expertise needed to survive and thrive in the coming year. The convention offers… Read More
March 18, 2011
The General Services Administration was assigned $5.5 billion worth of construction projects under the Recovery Act – of that, more than a half billion dollars has been saved and is set to be redistributed to other very necessary federal projects. According to an article in Federal Times, AGC's… Read More
March 18, 2011
Financial pressures on contractors grew worse in February as prices for key construction materials rose sharply even as prices construction firms charge for completed projects remained stagnant, according to an analysis of producer price index figures released Wednesday by AGC.
AGC said the… Read More
March 16, 2011