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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  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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Senate Approves Highway and Transit Extension to September 30
Following a day of intrigue concerning several different Senators threatening to prevent the bill from moving forward, the Senate by voice vote approved HR 662, legislation extending highway and transit program authorization until September 30, 2011 the end of federal fiscal year 2011. The bill… Read More
March 4, 2011
AGC Joins Comments on NLRB’s Proposal to Mandate Employee Rights Notice
AGC signed onto comments submitted by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) in opposition to the National Labor Relations Board’s proposed rule requiring employers to post notices informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).  AGC is a member of CDW’s … Read More
March 4, 2011
Federal Government Now Operating Under Two-Week Continuing Resolution
Facing a government shutdown on March 4, President Obama signed a continuing resolution that will fund the government through March 18.  The continuing resolution, which originated in the House of Representatives and was reluctantly accepted by Senate Democrats, continues to fund all discretionary… Read More
March 4, 2011
Survey on the Status of Highway Quality
The National Quality Initiative (NQI) was inaugurated in November 1992 as a unique partnership designed to focus attention and energy on continuous improvement in the quality of highway in the United States. The NQI later grew into the National Partnership for Highway Quality (NPHQ) but its mission… Read More
March 4, 2011
House Approves Highway and Transit Extension to September 30
By a vote of 421 to 4, the House of Representatives yesterday passed H.R. 662, extending federal surface transportation program funding through the end of the federal fiscal year 2011 which ends on September 30, 2011. The highway and transit programs are currently operating under the sixth … Read More
March 3, 2011
Why Training Is Important in Today’s Economy
By Michael E. Kuritz Everyone wants a competitive advantage. Be it the safest record, the fastest crew, or the least amount of rework there is always a race in construction to be the best. In the race for your company to be smarter, stronger, and faster everyone within the company must also be… Read More
March 3, 2011
Webinar - Construction: Time to Spring Forward?
Associated General Contractors Chief Economist Ken Simonson, American Institute of Architects Chief Economist Kermit Baker, and Reed Construction Data Chief Economist Jim Haughey discussed "Construction: Time to Spring Forward?" in a webinar on March 3. The economic experts examined the current… Read More
March 3, 2011
EPA Regulatory Review Underway
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has invited the public to participate in a comprehensive review of its “significant” environmental regulations to determine whether any such rules should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed to make the Agency's regulatory program more… Read More
March 2, 2011
House Continuing Resolution Includes Amendments Limiting U.S. EPA Authority
On February 19, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to fund the U.S. government for the rest of the federal fiscal year through the passage of a continuing resolution that cuts the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget by $3 billion from its current level of $10.3 billion and that… Read More
March 2, 2011
Construction Spending Nears Decade-Long Low in January
Construction spending slumped 0.7 percent from $798 billion in December to $792 billion in January, the second-lowest seasonally adjusted annual rate since July 2000, the Associated General Contractors of America noted today in an analysis of new Census Bureau data. Association officials noted… Read More
March 1, 2011

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