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Spotlight Your Achievements! AGC Launches Awards Season with the Opening of Build America, AGC in the Community, Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion Awards
July 15, 2024
Apply by Thursday, October 31, 2024!  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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Construction Professionals on the Rise – Space is Limited!
For construction leaders on the rise, no program provides a more comprehensive, uniquely focused program than AGC’s Advanced Management Program (AMP). Suited for chief executives and senior-level management in construction, this premier six-day program has been helping industry decision-makers… Read More
September 25, 2012
Don’t Miss AGC’s HR and TED Conferences and Federal Construction HR Workshop
There is still time to register for AGC’s 2012 HR Professionals Conference, Training, Education & Development (TED) Conference, and Federal Construction HR Workshop.  Both conferences will take place at the St. Anthony Riverwalk Wyndham Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, with the TED Conference… Read More
September 25, 2012
Sequestration Impacts on Transportation Funding
On Sept. 14, the Obama administration released a report to Congress providing a first guess at how they will implement $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts—called sequestration—slated to begin on Jan. 2, 2013. This sequestration process comes as a result of the debt ceiling deal –enacted under… Read More
September 25, 2012
AGC of America, FHWA, AGC of Oregon Sponsoring CIM Training Workshop
AGC and the Oregon Columbia Chapter are cooperating with FHWA on a workshop on Civil Integration Management (CIM). CIM is the collection, organization, and managed accessibility to accurate data and information related to a highway facility. The concept may be used by all affected parties for a… Read More
September 25, 2012
AGC Tells EPA that California’s Emissions Rule is Improved and Will Not Oppose it Moving Forward
AGC testified at a hearing this week called by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider California’s request for permission to implement it’s off-road diesel engine emissions reduction plan. AGC has in the past submitted over 550 pages of comments to EPA opposing the California rule.… Read More
September 25, 2012
Have Questions on AGC’s BIM Education Program and CM-BIM Credential?
View the new FAQ on the BIM Education Program and CM-BIM! AGC has been an industry leader in preparing contractors, and all of their project partners, to begin using Building Information Modeling with our BIM Education Program and Certificate of Management—Building Information Modeling (CM-BIM)… Read More
September 21, 2012
Construction Employment Declined in 30 States Between August 2011 and 2012
Construction employment declined in 30 states from August 2011 to August 2012 and in 26 states in the past month, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. Association officials noted that construction employment declined in most states even… Read More
September 21, 2012
AGC Weighs in on Proposed Surveys on Improving the Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay; Update Follows
AGC recently signed onto a joint comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that urges the Agency to abandon its proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) for a series of surveys on “Valuing Improved Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Using State Preference Methods.”  The… Read More
September 21, 2012
TAKE ACTION: Senate Panel Holds Hearing on WRDA; Tell Congress to Continue WRDA Work
On Sept. 20, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the need for a Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) reauthorization bill. AGC submitted a letter for the record, thanking the committee for beginning work on WRDA reauthorization and highlighting the importance of… Read More
September 21, 2012
Administration Releases Report Guessing at the Possible Agency Cuts Under Sequestration
On Sept. 14, the Obama administration released a report to Congress providing a first guess at how they will implement $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts—called sequestration—slated to begin on Jan. 2, 2013. This sequestration process comes as a result of the debt ceiling deal –enacted under… Read More
September 21, 2012

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