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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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House Passes AGC-Supported VA Reform Measure
Addresses Change Orders, Industry Standards and Standard Designs The House of Representatives this week unanimously passed AGC-supported legislation that would help improve the VA construction program’s interactions with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and accountability to taxpayers and… Read More
March 2, 2016
AGC-Backed Procurement Legislation Passes Senate Panel
Bill Addresses One-Step Design-Build and Reverse Auctions The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs this week unanimously passed AGC-supported legislation that would (1) require civilian federal agencies—non-Department of Defense agencies—to utilize the two-step design-build… Read More
March 2, 2016
Redevelopment of Federal Excess Property Legislation Advances
AGC Pushes for Redevelopment of Excess Federal Real Property Members of the House and Senate have recently introduced and advanced legislation that could encourage federal agencies to dispose of, consolidate, or redevelop billions of dollars of excess or underutilized civilian federal real… Read More
March 2, 2016
AGC Financial Issues Committee Early Bird Registration Open
The AGC Financial Issues Committee Summer Meeting is scheduled for June 13-14, 2016 in Washington, DC. Meeting and hotel information is available on the meeting’s site and Early-Bird registration opened this afternoon. CEOs, Owners, CFOs, Tax Directors and other accounting professionals will have… Read More
March 2, 2016
Construction Spending Posts Strong Monthly and Year-Over-Year Advances in Multifamily, Private Nonresidential and Public Categories in January
Construction spending soared in January from a month earlier and all major segments posted hefty year-over-year gains, pushing the total to the highest level since October 2008, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said the new spending… Read More
March 1, 2016
DOT Announces New FASTLANE Grants and Tiger Grant Availability
​US DOT this week announced that it is soliciting applications for two discretionary grant programs totaling $1.3 billion. The FAST Act created a new program for "Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects" that US DOT is calling the FASTLANE grants program, an acronym that stands for "… Read More
February 26, 2016
AGC Asks FHWA to Clarify Buy America Requirements
AGC joined with nine other construction industry groups in a letter to FHWA Administrator Greg Nadeau asking the agency to complete action on a proposed rule clarifying the applicability of Buy America requirements for manufactured products that may contain steel elements and for incidental… Read More
February 26, 2016
Sixth Circuit Says It Will Decide Legality of Controversial WOTUS Rule
Nationwide Stay Remains in Effect This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that the federal appellate court and not the district courts should resolve the pending legal disputes over the new “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule.  Importantly, for now, the nationwide… Read More
February 24, 2016
Submit Your Presentation Proposals Now for AGC's 2016 Contractors Environmental Conference on October 5-6 in Washington, D.C.
AGC has extended the Call for Presentations until March 18th AGC will hold its fifth Contractors Environmental Conference (CEC) on October 5-6, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.  The CEC is a yearly management, leadership and technology-focused… Read More
February 24, 2016
Registration Open: AGC's Spring Roundtable Discussions for In-House Environmental Managers
Join Us in Denver on April 20, 2016 Are you an environmental professional working in-house at a construction firm?  This spring, AGC is holding a day of roundtable discussions specifically for you and your peers – AGC’s In-House Environmental Managers Meeting.  Join us in Denver, CO on… Read More
February 24, 2016

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