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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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Interim Rules Governing Stimulus Issued
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council on March 31 issued several new reporting requirements for contractors and procurement officials disbursing stimulus funds. The new rules require the following: Prime contractors who win work funded by the economic recovery package must file detailed… Read More
April 2, 2009
GSA Submits $5.5 Billion Economic Recovery Plan to Congress
GSA has unveiled a $5.5 billion project list that highlights the unprecedented role the agency will play in assisting in the nation's economic recovery and putting American citizens back to work. Projects are funded across the country, providing benefit for local and state economies, and every… Read More
April 2, 2009
House Transportation Committee Issues Report on Infrastructure Spending
Today the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued a 22-page report detailing the distribution of stimulus bill funds under the committee's jurisdiction. In addition to the GSA construction programs listed above, the Committee identified progress under the Highway program: Of the… Read More
April 2, 2009
Help Educate the Next Generation of Constructors
AGC of America’s popular Build Up! educational resource for elementary-age children has expanded beyond the classroom to Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, to library career centers, and, lately, to Boys & Girls Clubs. Through a partnership between AGC and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America,… Read More
April 2, 2009
Airport Project Delivery Systems Summit Registration Open
AGC of America is a proud cosponsor of the 4th Annual Airport Project Delivery Systems Summit on June 3-4, 2009 in Savannah, Georgia.  If you are involved in airport construction, you won't want to miss this important event, presented by AGC of America, Airports Council International-NA, and the… Read More
April 2, 2009
New Spending Data Showing Decline in Private Non-Residential Construction Activity Start of Somber and Accelerating Trend, According to Top Construction Economist Ken Simonson
"Construction spending passed a somber milestone today according to new February 2009 data released today by the Census Bureau.  The 0.2 percent decline over last year in private nonresidential construction is the first time monthly spending has declined for two straight months year-over-year since… Read More
April 1, 2009
Crossland Elected to NCCER Board of Trustees as AGC Representative
The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) has announced that Ivan Crossland, of Crossland Construction, Columbus, Kansas, will serve a three-year term as the AGC representative on its Board of Trustees. Rick Graves, senior vice president of operations of Fluor Enterprises… Read More
April 1, 2009
Denver Event Shows How Card Check Hurts Union and Non-Union Construction Workers
AGC CEO Steve Sandherr, Dave Ivis, executive vice president of GE Johnson, and Kevin Fone, project superintendent, pose for a Denver Post photographer. AGC hosted an event in Denver this week and detailed how the proposed "Card Check" legislation currently being debated in Washington poses real… Read More
March 31, 2009
Registration for the Spring AGC BIMForum is Now Open!
Join us May 28-29 for the Spring 2009 AGC BIMForum in Dallas, TX.  The Spring BIMForum will be an assembly of some of the nation's leading Architects, Engineers, Builders and Owners for a two-day program focused on BIM and the bottom line. Topics to be covered include:  The economy of BIM - What is… Read More
March 31, 2009
State Construction Employment - February
Construction employment fell in February in 41 states, increased in six and was unchanged (or within 100 of the January level) in three plus D.C. Compared to a year earlier, construction employment fell in 45 states plus D.C., rose in La. (8.2%), Oklahoma (1.2%) and Arkansas (0.5%), and was within… Read More
March 27, 2009

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