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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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Simonson Says: What Will Be Hot in 2016?
After a five-year slide in construction spending, it is tempting to believe that the industry will be “back to normal” sometime in the next five years. But it’s more likely some segments will never match their  peaks of the last decade, whereas other categories will far exceed past levels. The… Read More
June 1, 2011
New Study Estimates Costs of Traffic Congestion
New research by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis at the School of Public Health estimates that the additional fine particulate matter emissions that can be traced back to traffic congestion in the nation’s 83 largest urban areas lead to more than 2,200 premature deaths in the U.S. last year… Read More
May 31, 2011
EPA Releases Plan to Review Environmental Regulations
On May 24, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a preliminary version of its master plan for reviewing existing regulations to determine whether any should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed.  At this point, the Agency seeks to conduct 31 regulatory reviews… Read More
May 31, 2011
AGC Members Represent Their Chapters on the SCC
Specialty contractors from AGC Chapters across the country comprise the AGC of America Specialty Contractors Council (SCC).  Each Chapter has the ability to nominate one individual to the SCC and an additional individual for every one hundred of the Chapter’s specialty contractor member firms. … Read More
May 31, 2011
Inspector General Questions EPA’s Support for Beneficial Use of Fly Ash
The Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just published a report recommending that the agency evaluate the risks involved in putting coal combustion residuals (CCRs), such as fly ash, to beneficial use before providing any further encouragement for the use of… Read More
May 31, 2011
Data Digest: Fewer metros add construction jobs in April; state tax collections rise; home prices fall
Construction employment declined between April 2010 and April 2011 in 179 out of 337 metropolitan areas (including divisions of larger metros) for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data, increased in 114 and stayed level in 44, according to an analysis AGC released on Thursday. In March… Read More
May 31, 2011
TCC Fly-In Urges Congressional Action on Transportation Legislation
Nearly 500 construction industry executives participated in the Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) fly-in this week, visiting with Senators and Representatives about the need to pass long-term transportation reauthorization legislation with additional revenue to prevent a significant drop… Read More
May 29, 2011
AGC Project Labor Agreement Policy Update
On May 20, 2011, AGC sent a letter to the Hawaii District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers providing comment on their solicitation regarding the potential use of project labor agreements (PLAs) for the FY11 PN65650 USARPAC Command and Control Facility, Phase 1, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, project.On… Read More
May 29, 2011
Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted; USACE Ready to Provide Emergency Response
An “above average” hurricane season is expected for the Atlantic Basin -- which includes the entire East Coast and Gulf Coast of the United States -- this year according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center – a division of the National Weather Service… Read More
May 28, 2011
Draft Wetlands Guidance Provides Federal Agencies’ Views on the Reach of the Clean Water Act
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on May 2, 2011, a new draft “Guidance on Identifying Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act.”  The proposed guidance intends to clarify the extent of federal control over construction work in “waters of… Read More
May 28, 2011

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