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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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Register Early and Save! Advanced Management Program Nov. 11-17, 2012
For construction leaders on the rise, no program provides a more comprehensive, uniquely-focused program than AGC's Advanced Management Program (AMP). Held just one time each year, this exclusive six-day program grounds construction industry executives in the essential skills and techniques… Read More
May 29, 2012
Interested in Lean Construction? Learn More About AGC’s New Education Program!
To develop the tools needed to build lean, AGC has developed the Lean Construction Education Program. Construction professionals at all experience levels will learn the building blocks necessary to transform their projects and companies into a lean operating system. AGC’s Lean Construction… Read More
May 29, 2012
AGC PAC-Supported Candidate Wins Arkansas Open Seat Primary Nomination
AGC PAC-supported candidate Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) won the Republican primary outright in Arkansas's 4th Congressional District on May 22, avoiding a runoff election. Prior to running for Congress, Cotton served for five years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He… Read More
May 27, 2012
General Bostick Assumes Command of USACE
Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick officially assumed command as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 53rd commanding general on May 22. Previously, Bostick served as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, U.S. Army. In April 2011, the U.S. Defense Department announced his nomination to the rank of Lieutenant General as… Read More
May 26, 2012
National News Media Highlights Needed Investment for Inland Waterway Infrastructure Investment
America transports $180 billion worth of freight across 38 states on inland waterways. However, as AGC has long advocated, the nation’s inland waterway infrastructure system needs adequate investment to keep up with freight demand.  USA Today underscored that point in an article this week . As the… Read More
May 26, 2012
Obama Administration Calls for 5 Percent Cuts From FY 2014 Agency Budgets
The White House budget office recently issued a memorandum to federal agencies directing them to plan for discretionary spending cuts of 5 percent below the 2014 levels the administration had previously outlined in its 2013 budget request.  Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Jeff… Read More
May 26, 2012
AGC-Supported Small Business Contracting Reforms Pass House
Last week, the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2013 with a host of small business contracting reforms attached to the measure. The reforms AGC supported and advocated for include: Federal Agency Contract Bundling Justification. This would require all… Read More
May 25, 2012
Transportation Conference Committee Continues Deliberations
House and Senate staff continue to meet to negotiate various provisions in the transportation reauthorization legislation. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who is serving as the chair of the conference committee, set June 7, 2012 as the target date for… Read More
May 25, 2012
AGC Joins Business Groups Questioning Administration’s Hiring Goals
On May 23, 2012, AGC joined 10 other national business associations in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Labor urging her to reconsider a series of new affirmative action mandates it plans to impose on contractors working on federal projects.  A press release from AGC today highlighted the lack of… Read More
May 25, 2012
Low-income Workers Struggle to Learn Demands of Construction Industry
Some of the biggest hurdles faced by low-income workers coming into the construction industry include transportation to the job and training; not knowing the expectations of the job (including the physical demands and showing up to work on time and appropriately dressed); and the academics of… Read More
May 24, 2012

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