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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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Congress Passes 90-Day Transportation Extension
Facing expiration of the latest extension of transportation authorization on March 31, the House and Senate today passed a 90-day extension (the 9th) allowing for funding of the highway and transit programs and collection of the federal motor fuels taxes (the gas tax) to continue through the end of… Read More
March 30, 2012
House Passes FY 2013 Budget Resolution
This afternoon by a margin of 228-191 – with ten Republicans voting against – the House of Representatives passed the Republican budget resolution for fiscal year (FY) 2013, the "Path to Prosperity."   The resolution remains unchanged from the proposal voted out of the Budget Committee last week… Read More
March 30, 2012
FEDCON Attendees Storm Capitol Hill
AGC Federal & Heavy Construction Division members launched an all out offensive on the legislative front during last week’s Federal Contractors Conference in Washington, DC. As part of a series of organized Capitol Hill visits, AGC members provided their federal elected officials information on… Read More
March 29, 2012
Template for Construction Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans Available Online
The U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) recently posted to its website a new “template” for construction site operators to use to develop stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs).  SWPPPs are site-specific documents that are required under EPA’s and other state-specific construction general… Read More
March 29, 2012
OSHA seeks comments on how to prevent worker injuries and deaths from reinforcing concrete activities and vehicle backovers
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks comments on how to prevent injuries and deaths from reinforcing concrete activities in construction, and from vehicles and mobile equipment backing into workers in construction, general… Read More
March 28, 2012
Construction Owner Unlawfully Ousted Union Protesters from Common Areas Around Leased Stores
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (IL, IN, WI) has upheld a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decision that a grocery chain using nonunion construction contractors unlawfully ejected building trade council representatives handing out handbills adjacent to properties leased by… Read More
March 28, 2012
Continuing Education Units offered in Hawaii
AGC’s 93rd Annual Convention was held March 13-17 in Honolulu, HI and featured four education tracks: Financial Management,Process, Technology and Innovation, Executive Management and Risk Management. All sessions were eligible for industry-related continuing education credits in a range of fields… Read More
March 27, 2012
AGC Student Chapters Share Experiences During AGC’s Convention
Nearly50 students from such diverse institutions of higher education as the University of Alaska at Anchorage; Auburn University; Northeast Mississippi Community College; Purdue University; University of Nebraska; and California State University at Fresno; attended the annual AGC Student Chapters… Read More
March 26, 2012
Mitt-Mentum Gaining Speed With Recent Victories
With recent presidential primary victories in American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Northern Marianas Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, Gov Mitt Romney has amassed nearly half of the delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination. Most notably, Romney won Illinois on… Read More
March 24, 2012
Supreme Court Victory for Construction Industry This Week on Wetlands Issue
This week, the construction industry has been hit with good news on the issue of federal jurisdiction over wetlands in the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous March 21 ruling, said that an Idaho couple could legally challenge an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance… Read More
March 24, 2012

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