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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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Although Congress has spent the past several days of the lame duck session considering a rescue package for the automotive industry, there is continued discussion about enacting an economic stimulus package with substantial investment in infrastructure as early as January 2009. House Speaker Nancy… Read More
November 20, 2008
EPA is seeking public input on regulating greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and construction equipment. AGC and many other industry groups are mobilizing members and chapters to stop EPA. We can only do this by sending as many individual comments as possible in response to EPA's Advanced… Read More
November 20, 2008
Two weeks after the election, two Senate races remain undecided. In Minnesota, AGC-backed Senator Norm Coleman (R) and Democratic satirist Al Franken are separated by less than 250 votes. By Minnesota state law, a recount has been ordered and final results may not be known until the end of the… Read More
November 20, 2008
Meetings for party leadership elections and respective Democratic and Republican caucuses in the House and Senate dominated behind-the-scenes during this week’s lame-duck session.
In the Senate, a resolution to the fate of Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) allowed him to remain chairman of the… Read More
November 20, 2008
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.
November 19, 2008
The Cincinnati chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) and the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati partnered to bring a Rosie’s Girls camp (named after Rosie the Riveter) to Cincinnati in July 2008.
Numerous AGC members participated in the event, providing instructors, camp… Read More
November 18, 2008
AGC of America offers a variety of programs that meet the professional development needs of construction professionals across all levels. Leveraging peer-to-peer training, the use of construction-specific real-world scenarios, and intensive exercises, AGC courses offer practical tools needed to… Read More
November 18, 2008
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More than 150 industry training and development professionals, including more than 20 chapter staff, attended the 2nd Annual Training & Development Conference, held in St. Louis in mid-October.
The conference displayed the many workforce development, training programs, and professional… Read More
November 18, 2008
For the second year in a row, children from western Pennsylvania celebrated National Careers in Construction Week with the Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania (CAWP) and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
The weeklong event, October 13-17, 2008, consisted of daily workshops… Read More
November 18, 2008
Applications for the 2009 ConstructMyFuture Scholarships for high school students planning to study a construction-related career are being accepted until February 3, 2009. The ConstructMyFuture Scholarships and web site are jointly sponsored by the Associated General Contractors of America, the… Read More
November 18, 2008