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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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Health Care Bills Move Closer to a Vote
On October 13, the Senate Finance Committee finished its two-week markup of a health care reform bill with a 14 to 9 vote to report the bill out of the committee. The only Republican to support the measure was Senator Olympia Snow (R-Maine).   The final committee vote had been delayed to give the… Read More
October 15, 2009
AGC and Clean Air Task Force Call For Diesel Cleanup
AGC and the Clean Air Task force called on Congress to give states the authority to require diesel emissions reductions on federally-funded transportation projects.  The two groups agreed, however, that any such requirement should be made via a contract change order and that the cost of the… Read More
October 15, 2009
Attend AGC's Building to LEED®-NC Course at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Phoenix, Arizona l November 11-13, 2009
AGC's acclaimed Building to LEED-NC: Overview and the Impact on Construction Practices course examines LEED for New Construction with a focus on the means and methods of construction. Attendees will learn about which prerequisites and credits have impacts on construction practices. The course… Read More
October 15, 2009
EPA Administrator Testifies on Clean Water Act Enforcement
U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson appeared before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today to discuss the Clean Water Act and EPA's intention to increase efforts to undertake enforcement actions under the Act. In her testimony to the Committee, Administrator Jackson noted that… Read More
October 15, 2009
Senate Approves Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
The Senate approved, 80-17, a $33.5 billion Energy and Water Appropriations package for FY 2010 and sent it to President Obama for his signature.  The bill provides $5.4 billion in funding for the FY2010 Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program, including:    Construction - $2.031 billion… Read More
October 15, 2009
Obama Administration Proposes New Contracting Changes
The Obama Administration proposed a series of rule changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) on October 14 that would address several critical components of the federal acquisition system and management of federal employees and private sector contractors. The first rule would allow the… Read More
October 15, 2009
Stimulus Snapshots Show Slowly Developing Picture
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-the stimulus legislation that President Obama signed in February-contained 61 separate programs with money for construction, by AGC's count, with a wide range of administering agencies, formulas and rules. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of variation in… Read More
October 13, 2009
Could the Commercial Market Become the Next Mortgage Crisis?
According to a Wall Street Journal article, federal officials are trying to prevent commercial foreclosures from creating another economic downturn in the fashion that housing market securities have created.  Two looming problems in the commercial-mortgage-backed-securities sector are a cause for… Read More
October 13, 2009
EPA's Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule-Prepare Now to Meet Upcoming Compliance Deadlines
A whole host of training, certification and work practice requirements called for by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Program are slated to take effect in April 2010.  By that date, construction firms must apply for and receive EPA… Read More
October 13, 2009
New Resource Explores Qualifications Based Selection of Contractors
The AGC Project Delivery Committee released Qualifications Based Selection of Contractors on August 24.  Qualifications Based Selection (QBS) is a procurement method in which the final criteria for selection are qualifications and demonstrated competence without consideration of price/cost until… Read More
October 13, 2009

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