Registration is open for the 2009 Construction Leadership Council Working Weekend, to be held Nov. 19-21, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn. This event is co-sponsored by the AGC of America Construction Leadership Council, AGC of Tennessee and the AGC of East Tennessee.
The two-day event will include the… Read More October 5, 2009
AGC and the Electronic Information Systems Committee (EIS) would like to invite general contractors and specialty contractors to present at the 2010 AGC Convention in Orlando, Fla. Share your reasons for implementing SharePoint, your implementation plan, pitfalls, successes and how it has or hasn't… Read More October 5, 2009
The rate of decline in overall employment is gradually slowing. First-time unemployment claims dropped in mid-September, suggesting that September employment losses will shrink again, as they did in August.
However, construction-particularly nonresidential construction-continues to hemorrhage jobs… Read More October 5, 2009
Seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll job losses in September totaled 263,000, barely half the average of the last 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday. (Seasonal adjustment takes into account normal monthly variations in weather and numbers of work days.) But… Read More October 2, 2009
A September 9 report from the latest Beige Book, a summary of informal soundings of business conditions, "indicate that economic activity continued to stabilize in July and August." The districts are referred to by the name of their headquarters city. "Relative to the last report, Dallas indicated… Read More October 2, 2009
Forbes reports that "financiers are sweating a coming wave of mortgage defaults tied to office and apartment buildings. Unfortunately for them, too big to fail doesn't apply to the $6.5 trillion U.S. commercial real estate market." Read the full story here.
October 2, 2009
CONSTRUCTION UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 17.1 PERCENT AS ANOTHER 64,000 CONSTRUCTION WORKERS LAID OFF IN SEPTEMBER
One out of Every Five Construction Workers Lost Job since December 2007, Nonresidential Construction Accounted for 80 Percent of Construction Jobs Lost Last Month
The national unemployment… Read More October 2, 2009
Congress completed action on a thirty-day Continuing Resolution to keep government programs operating in the new fiscal year while it continues to debate the necessary appropriations bills for the various federal agencies. Included in the legislation is a thirty-day spending authorization for the… Read More October 2, 2009
AGC unveiled a new plan designed to revive the hardest hit sector of the economy, the nation's construction industry. The plan, "Build Now for the Future: A Blueprint for Economic Growth," is designed to reverse predictions that construction activity will continue to shrink through 2010, crippling… Read More October 1, 2009
Congress completed action on a thirty-day Continuing Resolution to keep government programs operating in the new fiscal year while it continues to debate the necessary appropriations bills for the various federal agencies. Included in the legislation is a thirty-day spending authorization for the… Read More October 1, 2009
