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Spotlight Your Achievements! AGC Launches Awards Season with the Opening of Build America, AGC in the Community, Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion Awards
July 15, 2024
Apply by Thursday, October 31, 2024!  AGC of America is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 AGC Awards competitions! The Baldwin Group Build America Awards (including the Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellence category) and AGC in the Community competitions recognize the nation's most… Read More

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Financial Regulation Legislation Passes Senate
The Senate passed the conference report to H.R. 4173, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill will now go to the President for his signature. The legislation was opposed by the banking industry because it would significantly impact fees banks charge while adding new… Read More
July 15, 2010
EPA Expands Reach of Clean Water Act
  EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has declared the cement-lined Los Angeles river as "navigable," allowing her agency to enforce Clean Water Act protections throughout the river's 834-square-mile watershed. Recent Supreme Court rulings have strictly interpreted "navigable" as the means of… Read More
July 15, 2010
AGC Comments on Posting Contracts Online ANPR
AGC submitted comments this week on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) issued May 13, titled Enhancing Contract Transparency. The rule presupposes that, given the direction the administration is moving with the president's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) memo, Transparency and Open… Read More
July 15, 2010
Recovery Act-style Reporting Requirements Instituted for All Contracts
An interim rule was issued that brings many of the reporting requirements first made public in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the broader scope of federal contracting. The rule calls for reporting executive compensation and first-tier subcontract awards if the prime contractor and… Read More
July 15, 2010
Did Commercial Real Estate Escape its Crash?
Is the commercial real estate crash still waiting to happen, or did the market escape the same fate its residential counterpart succumbed to?  According to Fortune, there are two opposing fields of thought that have answers to this question.  The Congressional Oversight Panel still predicted a… Read More
July 15, 2010
Groups Challenge EPA's New Construction Stormwater Rules
EPA recently finalized its new stormwater rules that will impact nearly every construction and development project in the United States. The so-called Construction and Development Effluent Limitations Guidelines (C&D ELG) rule for the first time imposes an enforceable numeric limit on… Read More
July 14, 2010
CNBC Finds Infrastructure Valuable to Business
CNBC's fourth annual study of America's top states for business measures ten categories, including transportation and infrastructure, as well as education, workforce and quality of life. Read the article here.
July 13, 2010
AGC Member Discount – 25th Annual Construction SuperConference
December 15-17, 2010 | The Palace Hotel | San Francisco, Calif.   The 25th Annual Construction SuperConference will bring to the forefront new insights into the legal, business and economic challenges and opportunities in today's construction industry.  The agenda features panel discussions… Read More
July 12, 2010
Commercial Values Take a Dip
According to Bloomberg, 2010's first quarter saw an overall decline in commercial property values.  Though the general economy expanded slightly during this period and property sales increased, many commercial sectors did not fare well.  Office vacancies grew by 17 percent, and rents dropped by… Read More
July 12, 2010
Capitol Hill Newspaper Reports AGC Action on Infrastructure
As reported in The Hill, AGC has repeatedly urged Congress and the Administration to act on a range of infrastructure bills, given that the stimulus is running out but private sector demand has yet to pick up.  Several key pieces of infrastructure legislation remain is Congressional limbo,… Read More
July 8, 2010

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