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January 4, 2024
Construction Firms Have Mixed Outlook For 2024 As Expectations For Demand Remain Mostly Positive, But Less Upbeat Than Last Year Amid New Challenges
New Industry Outlook Shows Firms Are Counting on Public Sector, Data Center and Manufacturing Construction to Offset Declines in Retail, Lodging… Read More
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on July 8 announced the Administration's intent to "push ahead with full implementation" of a rule requiring federal contractors to use the E-Verify system to verify employees' authorization to work in the U.S. The E-Verify rule will apply to federal… Read More
July 27, 2009
Monday, July 27 - 4:00-5:00pm ET
Join AGC and The Family Business Institute for a free webinar and learn how you can better your business and life through lessons learned from a case study done by the Harvard Business Review.
In this one hour webinar, gain insight from other CEOs on:
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July 25, 2009
The theme for the Fall AGC BIMForum meeting, to be held on October 8-9, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pa., will be "BIM as the Evolving Standard of Care: Driving Process Transformation for Designers, Contractors and Owners." The BIMForum Leadership is submitting this call for proposals to solicit ideas… Read More
July 25, 2009
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AGC of America estimates that as many as 32 states are closely following California's controversial effort to implement and enforce first-time emission limits for in-use "fleets" of off-road diesel (ORD) equipment. If these states adopt identical rules, construction companies across the nation… Read More
July 24, 2009
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Trey Pebley (center), Vice President of McAllen Construction, Inc., of McAllen, Texas, testified Wednesday before the House Small Business Committee on the impact of federal regulation over water and wetlands on small businesses and family farmers.
The… Read More
July 24, 2009
AGC is recognized as the Association of choice for over 13,000 specialty contractor firms. The AGC of America Specialty Contractors Council (SCC) requests input from AGC's specialty contractor members on an important survey, available here, regarding how the Council can best serve and engage… Read More
July 24, 2009
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Construction HR professionals have been burdened with the responsibility of properly handling reductions-in-force (RIFs), lay-offs and furloughs - sometimes at a moment's notice. These situations can be difficult to handle legally, practically and emotionally… Read More
July 24, 2009
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), responsible for ensuring that contractors doing business with the federal government do not discriminate and take affirmative action, will soon begin conducting compliance reviews of construction contractors who receive funding and grants… Read More
July 24, 2009
On July 14, 2009, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued a notice of proposed rulemaking implementing President Obama's Executive Order 13502. This action created new FAR contract clauses to be included in federal contracts should an agency choose to require a Project Labor… Read More
July 24, 2009
In recent weeks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun fulfilling its promise of investigating employers who hire illegal workers by initiating two major steps: conducting audits of employers' I-9 forms and preparing for increased monitoring of the E-Verify System.
As mentioned in a… Read More
July 24, 2009