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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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Early-bird Rate for HR Professionals and TED Conferences Ends Sept. 1
AGC’s co-located HR Professionals Conference and Training, Education & Development (TED) Conference offers a fantastic value for construction industry training and HR professionals who are seeking the latest information on compliance, maximizing training efforts while reducing costs, and… Read More
July 26, 2012
AGC Staff Re-appointed to Federal Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship
Liz Elvin, AGC of America’s Senior Director of Workforce & Education Advancement, has been invited by U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to serve a second two-year term on the federal Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA). The ACA includes representatives from each of the following sectors… Read More
July 26, 2012
EPA Releases ‘Green Infrastructure’ Permitting and Enforcement Factsheets
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a series of six fact sheets on incorporating green infrastructure measures into National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System wet weather programs.  The series builds upon existing EPA guidance and agreements to describe how EPA and… Read More
July 26, 2012
2013 AGC/Alliant Build America Competition is Now Open; Submit Your Environmental Enhancement Project
AGC of America is proud to announce the launch of its premier construction awards season with the 2013 AGC/Alliant Build America competition. For the past two years, AGC has seen an increase in the number of project entries. We hope to see more project entries from AGC member companies. Click here… Read More
July 26, 2012
EPA Not in Hurry to Propose National ‘Post-Construction’ Stormwater Rules; Another Deadline Missed
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently re-negotiated its previously revised settlement agreement with environmental groups setting a new deadline for proposing a national rule that would limit stormwater discharges from developed and redeveloped properties.  Latest reports are that… Read More
July 25, 2012
Deadline to Cut Stationary Engine Emissions Slated for 2013: Review of RICE NESHAP Rules
If you own or operate a stationary generator, pump, compressor or some other piece of stationary equipment then you probably need to “retrofit” its engine to comply with federal National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP).  Nearly one million existing, stationary diesel… Read More
July 25, 2012
House Appropriations Subcommittee Considers DOL/HHS Spending Bill, Recommends Policy Changes
On July 18, 2012 the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies passed the FY 2013 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill. The legislation includes funding for programs within the Department of Labor (DOL), the Department… Read More
July 23, 2012
AGC Urges House Panel to Move on DOD Report Counting Lower Tier Small Business Subcontractors
On July 16, AGC sent a letter to the House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) and Ranking Democrat Adam Smith (D-Wash.) urging them to encourage the Department of Defense (DOD) to issue its report on counting small business participation at all tiers. With AGC encouragement,… Read More
July 23, 2012
NCCER Seeks Craft Wage Input
AGC members are being asked to respond to a short survey on craft wages created by the National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER) to better align its marketing and recruitment efforts with current industry wages for craft professionals. In order to help NCCER better reflect… Read More
July 23, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Update
With the nation hurtling towards the fiscal cliff, mounting federal debt, the 2001, 2003, and 2010 tax cuts set to expire, the imposition of sequestration and the prospect of hitting the federal debt limit early next year, there seems to be little area of common ground between Democrats and… Read More
July 21, 2012

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