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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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AGC Advocates for Infrastructure in Jobs Bill
Senate Democrats are in the process of assembling a "jobs bill" that will likely be ready for consideration after they finish health care reform. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) are writing the jobs bill after receiving over 100 job creation ideas from their colleagues and… Read More
January 14, 2010
Immigration Talks Continue in the Senate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and President Obama have both indicated that they want to pursue comprehensive immigration reform in 2010. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are trying to craft a bipartisan measure that could be introduced in the Senate… Read More
January 14, 2010
Senate to Vote on Increasing the Federal Debt Limit
While the health care reform negotiations continue, the Senate returns next week and will consider legislation that will raise the federal debt limit above the $13 trillion ceiling the House approved last year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has not said how much the bill would raise… Read More
January 14, 2010
New Document Provides Guidance on 3D and BIM
The Specialty Contractor's Subforum of the AGC BIMForum has created the MEP Spatial Coordination Team Requirements for Building Information Modeling. This document provides guidance to companies and individuals involved in 3D MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection) spatial… Read More
January 13, 2010
Build America Bonds Projected to Rise in 2010
A December 1 Bloomberg article projects sales of Build America Bonds to rise to 40 percent of the 2009 monthly average of $6.56 billion.  This would mean increased yearly total sales of $110 billion in 2010.  Build America Bonds, which allow state and local governments to receive 35 percent of… Read More
January 12, 2010
AGC Responds to AP Story on Stimulus-Funded Highway Work
Ken Simonson, AGC's chief economist, issued a statement yesterday in response to an Associated Press story that looked at the impact of stimulus-funded highway projects on overall construction employment. Simonson stated that the article's fundamental assumptions are flawed because it is impossible… Read More
January 12, 2010
AGC Called on California to Delay Off-Road Diesel Deadlines
Citing new state data showing California's off-road diesel equipment operators will be well below new emissions targets for years to come, AGC called on state officials to immediately order at least a two-year delay for their new off-road "diesel retrofit" rule  in an emergency petition filed… Read More
January 12, 2010
Focusing on Stimulus, Jobs and Construction
Conflicting data, media reports and politicians' assertions have spread a great deal of confusion about the stimulus legislation's impact, or lack of it, on job creation in construction. The reality is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - the "stimulus bill" - has enabled… Read More
January 12, 2010
Nov. construction spending, job losses were widespread; wage increases diminish
Nonresidential construction starts fell 8.2% in December, compared to December 2008, and 6.9% for all of 2009, compared to 2008, Reed Construction Data reported today, based on information it compiled. Building construction was down 27% for the month and 17% for the year. Starts on civil works (… Read More
January 12, 2010
EPA Proposes Tougher Ozone Standard; 60-day Comment Period
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Jan. 7 proposed to tighten the air quality standards for ground-level ozone issued in 2008 by the Bush administration and to set a separate secondary standard.  According to agency estimates, the costs of implementing the proposal range from $19… Read More
January 11, 2010

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