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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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Administration Announces New High Speed Rail Funding
The Federal Railroad Administration today announced the award of $2.482 billion in High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail grants. Fifty-four projects in 23 states and several multi-state regions are included in the grant awards. These awards are in addition to the $8 billion in grants for projects… Read More
October 28, 2010
AGC Comments on Proposed Accounting Changes for Revenue Recognition
AGC submitted comments Friday to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in response to the Board's proposed Accounting Standards Update to create a single revenue recognition standard across multiple industries, including construction.  The accounting update could have significant impacts… Read More
October 28, 2010
AGC Filing Comments on FASB Multiemployer Disclosure Draft
AGC is finalizing its comments on the Federal Accounting Standards Board's proposed accounting standard that would require the disclosure of withdraw liability from multiemployer pension plans on company financials. AGC's comments urge FASB to withdraw the Exposure Draft and reconsider the proposal… Read More
October 28, 2010
Construction Employment Declines in 236 of 337 Metro Areas
Construction employment declined in 236 out of 337 metropolitan areas between September 2009 and September 2010 according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Thursday by AGC. Meanwhile, the number of metro areas adding jobs - 56 - remained unchanged from the previous month's data… Read More
October 28, 2010
Metropolitan Area Construction Employment - September
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CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT DECLINES IN 236 OUT OF 337 METROPOLITAN AREAS BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 2009 & 2010  Chicago and Napa, California Lose Most Jobs for the Year while Hanford-Corcoran, California and Columbus, Ohio Top List of Metro Areas Adding Jobs Construction employment declined in 236 out… Read More
October 28, 2010
DOT/EPA Propose First-Time National Emissions and Fuel-Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks, Including Pickup Trucks
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on October 25 announced proposed new emission standards for carbon dioxide (CO2) and fuel consumption standards for three categories of heavy trucks… Read More
October 28, 2010
Updated ConsensusDOCS Guidebooks - Now Available
Free Downloads The ConsensusDOCS Guidebooks have been updated and are available as free downloads at http://consensusdocs.org/catalog/consensusdocs-guidebook/. The Guidebooks include comments from individual associations to its own membership on specific contract documents, highlighting… Read More
October 27, 2010
Update on November 2012 Stormwater Rulemaking to Control Post-Construction Runoff
AGC remains actively engaged in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) effort to promulgate new standards to restrict stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped construction sites (i.e., post-construction discharges) by November 2012.  EPA recently sent out mandatory… Read More
October 27, 2010
EPA Gears Up For Next Diesel Grant Competition
AGC Supports Robust Funding for Program and Five-Year Reauthorization The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it will open its application process for fiscal year 2011 National Funding Assistance Program diesel grants this November. The Agency expects to make $60… Read More
October 27, 2010
EPA Extends Deadline To Meet Federal Oil Spill Planning Requirements by One Year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently revised the compliance deadline for the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule, which affects some construction sites and hot-mix plants. All facilities (i.e., sites) storing over 1,320 gallons of "oils" either by aggregate (i… Read More
October 26, 2010

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