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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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Oregon’s Lake Oswego Interceptor Sewer project was named the most significant construction project of 2010. The project’s contractor, Advanced American Construction, Inc., was the grand award winner while 19 other firms received the AGC’s Aon Build America Awards in other categories.
The Lake… Read More
April 5, 2011
The 2011 AGC Federal Contractors Conference will be held May 2-5, 2011, at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. This meeting is the only national event where contractors and federal agency personnel can meet in a collaborative forum to review federal construction contracting issues and trends… Read More
April 4, 2011
AGC hosted the annual AGC Student Chapter Meeting on March 21 at AGC’s 92nd Annual Convention in Las Vegas. Sponsored by Turner Construction and Herzog, college students were treated to a luncheon along with industry speakers and mentoring sessions.
The meeting kicked off with a stirring roll… Read More
April 4, 2011
AGC released a new national plan detailing measures to stimulate demand for construction.
The plan is necessary to reverse construction employment declines that have taken place in 317 out of 337 metro areas since January 2007, according to new data. The plan is called Building a Stronger Future:… Read More
April 4, 2011
AGC's Brian Deery joined FHWA Administrator Victor Mendez, Maryland state officials and other national groups to launch of National Work Zone Awareness Week. This year’s event took place at the Intercounty Connector construction site in Laurel, Md., along Interstate 95 which is the one of the… Read More
April 4, 2011
View AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson’s presentation on the outlook for construction activity, materials and labor.
April 4, 2011
Construction spending tumbled 1.4% in February to $761 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, the lowest total since 1999 and 6.8% percent below the February 2010 level, the Census Bureau reported on Friday. The slump was accentuated by downward revisions for January (from $792 billion to $… Read More
April 4, 2011
On March 29, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued interim guidance to employers on the requirement, as a result of the Affordable Care Act, to report the cost of employer-provided health insurance coverage on Form W-2.
Using a question-and-answer format, the IRS provided guidance for… Read More
April 4, 2011
Join your industry allies in Washington, D.C. on May 24-25, 2011for the Transportation Construction Coalition’s 2011 Legislative Fly-in as we make the case that “Transportation Moves the Economy.” Your Congressional delegation needs to hear from you about the importance of transportation… Read More
April 3, 2011
Vice President Paul Diederich represented AGC at a hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee which is soliciting ideas to include in the highway and transit authorization legislation. Diederich told the committee of the need for certainty in funding so that states can make… Read More
April 2, 2011