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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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Supreme Court Invalidates Decisions of Two-Member NLRB; Senate Confirms Two New NLRB Members
On June 17, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in New Process Steel v. NLRB holding that the National Labor Relations Board lacked authority to issue decisions from the end of 2007 to March 2010, when the five-member Board had only two members.  The decision effectively invalidates nearly 600… Read More
June 25, 2010
AGC Data Supports USA TODAY Construction Spending Study
Friday's USA TODAY includes a look at construction spending trends nationwide, and includes data and comments from AGC. The newspaper's study found that the stimulus helped soften what could be the first year of decline in construction spending since 1993. Read the article here. For more… Read More
June 25, 2010
May MHC starts rise; ABI falls; state construction employment splits; wages cool more
New construction starts in May climbed 3% from the previous month, McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) reported on Tuesday, based on data it collected. "Nonresidential building showed improvement after weak activity in April, and residential building edged upward. However, nonbuilding construction… Read More
June 24, 2010
US Department of Labor's OSHA to hold additional stakeholder meetings on worker injury and illness prevention rule
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled two additional stakeholder meetings, one in Washington, D.C., and one in Sacramento, Calif., to solicit comments in developing the Injury and Illness Prevention Program proposed rule. These additional… Read More
June 24, 2010
COBRA Subsidy Expires; Extension Seems Unlikely
The eligibility period required for certain individuals to receive a 65 percent premium subsidy to help pay for continuing health coverage, also known as COBRA, has been extended several times but will likely not be extended again.  Although Congress recently passed the Continuing Extension Act of… Read More
June 24, 2010
OSHA to Partner with Local Building Inspectors to Increase Enforcement in Construction
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching a pilot program seeking to partner with building inspectors in 11 cities to reduce injuries and fatalities at construction sites.  The pilot program was initially announced during the April 14 - 15,… Read More
June 24, 2010
Conference Brings More Than 100 Industry Leaders to Utah
Building contractors, lean construction professionals and other industry leaders shared best practices and lessons learned at the AGC Building Contractors Conference on June 9-12 in Midway, Utah. The Conference included sessions sponsored by the AGC Lean Construction Forum, which included an… Read More
June 23, 2010
Member Input Needed to Help Shape Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule
Public and commercial building contractors have an opportunity to help shape a future lead paint rule.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started to develop lead-safe work practices and other requirements that may well apply to renovation and remodeling activities both on the… Read More
June 23, 2010
AGC's Ken Simonson Breaks Down Recent Construction Data
Contractors and owners at AGC's Private/Public Industry Advisory Council meeting on June 11 reported mixed levels of construction activity. Most categories of private and state and local government-funded construction remain moribund. However, two leisure-industry owners reported a pickup in… Read More
June 23, 2010
Groups Challenge EPA's New Construction Stormwater Rules
EPA recently finalized its new stormwater rules that will impact nearly every construction and development project in the United States. The so-called Construction and Development Effluent Limitations Guidelines (C&D ELG) rule for the first time imposes an enforceable numeric limit on… Read More
June 23, 2010

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