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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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Biden Talks Card Check at AFL-CIO Meeting
This week at the AFL-CIO winter meeting, Vice President Biden told supporters that the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) could still be passed this year.   Though the challenge of pushing this legislation through the Senate became difficult with the election of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.),… Read More
March 4, 2010
Possible Recess Appointment for AGC-Opposed Nominee to the National Labor Relations Board
In February, the Senate was unable to pass the nomination of Craig Becker to become a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).   Becker is the Associate General Counsel of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO and has been a prolific writer on the National Labor Relations Act, the law he would be… Read More
March 4, 2010
Congress Holds Hearing on Water Resources Development Act Implementation
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing on March 3, 2010, to review how well the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has succeeded in its implementation of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (WRDA). Some of the reforms in that legislation were designed to revise how U… Read More
March 4, 2010
Senate Small Business Committee Reports Anti-Bundling Bill
Today the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee approved legislation, S.2989, designed to address contract bundling. This topic has become an area of growing interest for AGC members as the government is increasingly relying on this procurement method for the bidding of federal… Read More
March 4, 2010
WEBINAR – Comparing AIA and ConsensusDOCS in a Real World Setting
Using real-world examples, two leading construction attorneys will discuss many of the difference between ConsensusDOCS and AIA standard form construction contract documents.  Key issues that will be addressed include: Owner Financial Information Means and Methods Submittal Schedule Change Orders… Read More
March 3, 2010
First National AGC Service Project to Help Two Veterans
Meet the two veterans who AGC Charities will help on March 16 in Orlando, Fla., as part of the first ever national Operation Opening Doors project. Watch the video here. WWII veteran Harding Cox and Korean War Veteran Nestor Ortiz need your help to make their homes accessible. To find out how you… Read More
March 3, 2010
Congress Concerned About Commercial Real Estate Market
On February 1, Congressmen Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa.) and Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), along with 77 other bipartisan House members, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake suggesting they take further steps to ensure the health of the commercial real… Read More
March 3, 2010
National Construction Career Days Newsletter
The winter edition of the National Construction Career Days Center Newsletter is now available and contains information on recently held events in New Hampshire, Michigan and North Carolina. The newsletter, which is in a downloadable PDF, also contains tips and best practices from recent events as… Read More
March 2, 2010
Construction spending falls; federal highway funds lapse; ABI sinks; credit stays tight
Construction spending fell in January to $884 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, down 0.6% from December, down 9.3% from January 2009 and the lowest rate since June 2003, the Census Bureau reported today. November and December totals were revised down by 1.4% each, and the 2009 total, $… Read More
March 1, 2010
Congress Shuts Down Highway Program
Congress adjourned for the week without enacting legislation to extend highway and transit program spending authority beyond the February 28, 2010 deadline. As a result, states will not be reimbursed for payments for ongoing contracts starting on Monday and FHWA employees will be furloughed on… Read More
March 1, 2010

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