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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Join AGC member company CFOs, CEOs and other senior accounting professionals Jan. 9-10, 2014, in Miami, Fla. for the AGC Financial Issues Forum (formerly the Tax and Fiscal Affairs Committee Meeting). Be sure to make your hotel arrangements by Wednesday, Dec. 18 to take advantage of group rates.… Read More
October 31, 2013
On Oct. 25, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) sent to the U.S. Department of Energy its long-awaited recommendations for the federal government’s use of green building rating systems. GSA recommends that agencies use either the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in… Read More
October 31, 2013
AGC Offers Members Opportunities to Learn More and Weigh In
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released a massive 331-page draft report distilling peer-reviewed science on how smaller, isolated water bodies are connected to larger ones. See Connectivity of Streams and… Read More
October 30, 2013
UPDATE: EPA is extending until Dec. 26, 2013, the comment period for the Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit for Stormwater Discharges From Industrial Activities. Click here to read the Federal Register notice.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will… Read More
October 30, 2013
The AGC Construction Marketing Forum was recently renamed the AGC Business Development Forum. The decision to rename the Forum is based upon the results and feedback the Steering Committee received from the AGC Construction Marketing Forum Visioning Survey that Forum members participated in over… Read More
October 30, 2013
August showed further improvement in billings at U.S. architecture firms. The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score of 53.8 for the month reflected the strongest growth in activity in six months, and marked the twelfth time in the past 13 months that design activity has increased nationally. The… Read More
October 30, 2013
AGC of America’s awards season is well underway, and with the Nov. 1 deadline for both our AGC/Alliant Build America Awards and AGC in the Community competitions fast approaching, we wanted to encourage those who have not yet submitted for either or both of these competitions this year to do so… Read More
October 30, 2013
The AGC Building Contractors Conference was held Oct. 16-19, 2013, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo. and was a huge success. This year’s event brought together senior-level contractors, large project owners and other key industry stakeholders. The Conference’s theme was “Increasing Your… Read More
October 30, 2013
AGC Seeks Industry Input on Costs Associated with OSHA’s Proposed Cut to Legal Limit
UPDATE: On Oct. 25, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it is extending the public comment period on its proposed silica rule by 47 days. The original deadline to submit public… Read More
October 29, 2013
The partial federal government shutdown added to an already heavy toll on construction from federal spending cuts. Unfortunately, contractors should expect more blows ahead, even if Congress avoids another shutdown.
The closure of so many offices drove home the many ways contractors interact with… Read More
October 29, 2013
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