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The AGC of America Specialty Contractors Council (SCC) released a two-page "Best Practices Guidance for Retainage" document in Fall 2009. Developed by the SCC Executive Committee with input from the more than 1,000 AGC specialty contractor members who responded to an AGC retainage survey, this… Read More
August 18, 2010
AGC called on the president to send an "unmistakable and public" message that political appointees are not to cross the line between politics and procurement.
AGC urged President Obama to tell his staff to leave career contracting officers free to evaluate whether it is in the taxpayers'… Read More
August 18, 2010
Collective bargaining settlements reported to the Construction Labor Research Council (CLRC) between January and June of this year resulted in an average first-year wage-and-benefits increase of $0.55 or 1.1 percent. This is considerably lower than the $1.49 or 3.1 percent average increase… Read More
August 17, 2010
AGC has compiled tables of PPIs for construction materials and segments as well as analysis. The data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly report and covers over 50 construction specific data series.
August 17, 2010
AGC of SD President Dave Gustafson speaking at the Rapid City event while the state's DOT Secretary Darin Bergquist looks on.
As part of the Transportation Construction Coalition and Americans for Transportation Mobility, AGC launched a new national effort to push for passage of the long-delayed… Read More
August 17, 2010
Have contractors stopped buying high and selling low? Maybe for the moment, but the pattern over the past year is still unfavorable.
The latest producer price indexes (PPIs) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that most materials costs were flat or slightly lower in July. The PPI for inputs… Read More
August 17, 2010
AGC held a regional meeting with the National Construction Alliance II (NCA II) - a partnership of the Carpenters and Operating Engineers unions - on August 4 in Boston, Mass.. Meeting participants discussed such issues as the multiemployer pension plan crisis, restrictive work rules and… Read More
August 16, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has abruptly decided to abandon the first nationwide numeric limit on the amount of sediment that can cloud the water running off of construction sites. Citing evidence that both AGC and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) included in… Read More
August 16, 2010
The newly designed Building to LEED® for New Construction will help contractors and other building professionals navigate the green building certification process, understand the newest version of the rating system and maintain their LEED credential.
"Green building is rapidly changing from a… Read More
August 16, 2010
A new analysis by AGC of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on average hourly earnings (payroll divided by employee hours) in construction (www.bls.gov/ces) shows a dramatic slowdown for most subsectors since 2008. Average pay for all employees in the industry increased 4.0% in 2007, 4.8% in… Read More
August 13, 2010
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