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2024 AGC & HCSS Highway Work Zone Safety Survey
May 23, 2024
  Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and workers at risk, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of… Read More

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Producer Prices For Construction Materials And Services Soar 26 Percent Over 12 Months As Contractors Cope With Supply Hitches, Weak Demand
Unprecedented price increases for a wide range of goods and services used in construction pushed up contractors’ costs by a devastating 26.3 percent from June 2020 to June 2021, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government data released today. Association… Read More
July 14, 2021
AGC Education and Research Foundation Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarship is Now Open
Each year the AGC Education and Research Foundation offers undergraduate and graduate level scholarships to students enrolled in ABET or ACCE accredited construction management or construction related engineering programs. The application opened July 1, 2021 and closes November 1, 2021. Over $10… Read More
July 14, 2021
Registration Now Open For Inaugural AGC Workforce Summit
Event Will Take Place on October 13th in St. Louis, Missouri Registration has now opened for AGC of America’s inaugural National Construction Industry Workforce Summit. The summit, which is taking place on October 13th in St. Louis, Missouri, is designed to bring together leaders in the… Read More
July 12, 2021
Construction Employment Declines By 7,000 In June As Nonresidential Firms Struggle To Find Workers And Materials To Complete Projects
Construction employment declined by 7,000 between May and June as the industry still employs 238,000 fewer people than before the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government data released today. Association officials said that job losses in the… Read More
July 2, 2021
EEOC Extends Deadline for 2019 & 2020 EEO-1 Data Collection
The deadline to submit and certify 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data HAS BEEN CHANGED. The new filing deadline is NOW Monday, August 23, 2021. After delaying the opening of the 2019 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collections on May 8, 2020, in light of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S… Read More
July 1, 2021
Immigration Bill Introduced to Address Workforce Challenges in Construction
Despite the ongoing recovery from the pandemic, the construction industry is expected to experience low unemployment with little expectation that the current domestic workforce can alone meet future employment demand. Compounding the workforce challenges in the industry, currently the nation’s… Read More
July 1, 2021
House Passes $715 Billion Highway, Transit & Water Infrastructure Bill
On July 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3684, the INVEST in America Act, a $715 billion federal investment in America’s roads, bridges, transit, passenger rail, and drinking and wastewater infrastructure. AGC lobbied against several of the policies included in the bill. However,… Read More
July 1, 2021
Nonresidential Construction Spending Continues To Decline In May, Even Compared To The Early Pandemic, Amid Supply Chain & Labor Challenges
Construction Officials Urge Federal Officials to Allow Unemployment Supplements to Expire, Take Steps to address Supply-Chain Backups and Remove Tariffs on Key Materials so Firms can Perform More Work Overall construction spending declined in May compared to the prior month, driven by continued… Read More
July 1, 2021
AGC Brings the Environmental Experts to You
We're all eager to get back to in-person conferences, but you won't want to miss the exceptional lineup of environmental sessions we've assembled for 2021's Construction Safety, Health & Environmental Virtual Conference on July 20-22. That's why we've slashed the price for this year's virtual… Read More
June 30, 2021
Construction Employment In May Trails Pre-COVID Levels In 91 Metro Areas As Firms Struggle To Cope With Materials, Labor Challenges
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land and Odessa, Texas Have Worst 15-Month Construction Job Losses; Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.-Wis. and Fargo, N.D.-Minn. Top Lists of Metros with Job Gains    Construction employment … Read More
June 30, 2021

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