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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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EPA Briefs AGC on Plans to Revamp CWA Jurisdiction, Solicits Input
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are working on a proposed rule to revise the definition of “waters of the United States” that are subject to federal control and permit requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA). AGC recently participated… Read More
December 1, 2011
Webinar on CIM Tuesday December 6—Sign Up Today
BIM and 3D modeling have been used extensively and successfully in vertical building construction. Contractors, state DOTs and other public owners are now recognizing its application and value in the construction of highways, bridges and other civil projects. Civil Information Modeling (CIM) can… Read More
November 30, 2011
AGC Named One of Top 50 Trade Associations
Washington Business Journal named the Associated General Contractors of America to its "Top of the List: Trade Associations" for 2011. AGC is one of only three construction industry related trade associations on the journal's Top 50 list, and the only general contractors association on the list.… Read More
November 29, 2011
U.S. Architecture Billings Index Rises Slightly in October
While the month of September saw a slip in the Billings Index, the American Institute of Architects reports that the index has jumped to 49.4 in October. The last time the Index came in above 50 was in August at 51.4. Any reading below 50 is said to indicate a decrease in commercial building… Read More
November 29, 2011
Guessing about Prices
One of the biggest challenges in construction (and economics!) is figuring out where prices will be a year—or even a day—from now. While all businesses share this problem to some degree, it is much more acute in construction, because contractors typical provide owners a guaranteed price months or… Read More
November 29, 2011
Super Committee Update: Spending
The Budget Control Act established new spending caps ($1.045 trillion) that established the allocations in which the House and Senate Appropriations Committees drafted their fiscal year 2012 funding bills.  To date, Congress has only passed 3 of 12 FY 2012 appropriations bills and the federal… Read More
November 23, 2011
Super Committee Update: Taxes
The failure of the Super Committee also sets the stage for a busy year for tax policy with a number of important tax rates and expenditures set to expire starting on Jan. 1, 2012. First, the annual “Tax Extenders” package expires at the end of the 2011. This bill includes popular tax expenditures… Read More
November 23, 2011
Super Committee Update: Budget/Sequestration
The sequestration process that has now been triggered will need to cut the deficit by $984 billion over ten years.  This number reflects the $1.2 trillion in cuts outlined in the Budget Control Act minus the interest savings that will be achieved from deficit reduction. The result is that a little… Read More
November 23, 2011
Super Committee Fails, Across-The-Board Cuts Coming in 2013
On Nov. 21, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction announced they had failed to come to a bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction measures.  The super committee’s failure means that $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts known as “sequestration” will take place in 2013.  The more immediate… Read More
November 23, 2011
Construction Employment Rises in 25 States and DC in October, While 25 States Shed Industry Workers During the Past 12 Months
Construction employment rose in half the states and decreased in half in October and during the past year, closely matching the stable national employment picture, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data.  The even split between gains and… Read More
November 22, 2011

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