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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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Labor Department Schedules Prevailing Wage Seminars for 2015
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has scheduled five upcoming seminars throughout the country to educate federal and federally assisted contractors on the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts and other federal contracting wage laws the agency enforces.  Each two-and-a-… Read More
May 20, 2015
Construction Group Calls for Better Safety Measures as New Data Shows Nearly Half of Road Contractors Suffered Car Crashes in Work Zones
Forty-six percent of highway contractors reported that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America.  Association officials urged summer… Read More
May 20, 2015
Gauge Where Your Company Stands on Recruiting, Retaining and Training Construction Industry Workers
FMI, a leading provider of management consulting and people development services to the engineering and construction industries, is collecting data for its comprehensive 2015 Talent Acquisition and Development Report.  Construction industry executives, training directors and HR professionals… Read More
May 20, 2015
Construction Spending in March Rises from Year Earlier, Slips from February
Construction spending slipped in March from upwardly revised February totals but increased modestly from a year earlier, according to an analysis by AGC of America.  Association officials cautioned, however, that those spending gains could be at risk if Congress and the Obama administration… Read More
May 8, 2015
Construction Firms Add 45,000 Jobs in April, Industry's Unemployment Rate Hits 7.5 Percent
Construction firms added 45,000 jobs in April and 280,000 over 12 months, as the sector's unemployment rate fell to a nine-year April low of 7.5 percent, according to an analysis by AGC of America. Association officials noted that even as the industry continues to expand, growth has been erratic… Read More
May 8, 2015
How to Design an Effective Proposal
Mel Lester, The Business Edge When I first started writing proposals back in the mid-1980s, adding a few graphics was a fairly radical concept. There seemed to be a widespread expectation that technical service proposals must be staid and boring – nothing but the facts, ma'am. Now, attractive… Read More
May 1, 2015
Stop the EPA and the Corps' Proposed Rule Redefining "Waters of the U.S."
Action Needed Now – House Vote as Early as Tomorrow, Rule Expected to be Finalized Soon The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are close to finalizing their proposed rule redefining "waters of the U.S." and making many more areas subject to… Read More
May 1, 2015
AGC Testifies in Support of New Plan Design during House Multiemployer Pension Hearing
On April 29, AGC CEO Stephen Sandherr testified during a hearing held by the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions on ways to further strengthen the multiemployer pension system. The bipartisan, noncontroversial hearing focused on the… Read More
May 1, 2015
Budget Conference Agreement Reached
House Expected to Vote Today, Senate Next Week For the first time since 2010, the House and Senate have reached agreement on a joint budget resolution. The resolution would cut $5.3 trillion from the budget to balance federal receipts and expenditures over nine years.  The majority of those… Read More
May 1, 2015
AGC Weighs in Hours of Service
This week, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a hearing that looked at the role of federal regulations as it pertains to Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety, including Hours of Service regulations.  AGC submitted a statement outlining our… Read More
May 1, 2015

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