AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey
94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies
The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More
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AGC submitted comments Friday to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in response to the Board's proposed Accounting Standards Update to create a single revenue recognition standard across multiple industries, including construction. The accounting update could have significant impacts… Read More
October 28, 2010
AGC is finalizing its comments on the Federal Accounting Standards Board's proposed accounting standard that would require the disclosure of withdraw liability from multiemployer pension plans on company financials. AGC's comments urge FASB to withdraw the Exposure Draft and reconsider the proposal… Read More
October 28, 2010
Construction employment declined in 236 out of 337 metropolitan areas between September 2009 and September 2010 according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Thursday by AGC.
Meanwhile, the number of metro areas adding jobs - 56 - remained unchanged from the previous month's data… Read More
October 28, 2010
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT DECLINES IN 236 OUT OF 337 METROPOLITAN AREAS BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 2009 & 2010Â
Chicago and Napa, California Lose Most Jobs for the Year while Hanford-Corcoran, California and Columbus, Ohio Top List of Metro Areas Adding Jobs
Construction employment declined in 236 out… Read More
October 28, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on October 25 announced proposed new emission standards for carbon dioxide (CO2) and fuel consumption standards for three categories of heavy trucks… Read More
October 28, 2010
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The ConsensusDOCS Guidebooks have been updated and are available as free downloads at http://consensusdocs.org/catalog/consensusdocs-guidebook/.
The Guidebooks include comments from individual associations to its own membership on specific contract documents, highlighting… Read More
October 27, 2010
AGC remains actively engaged in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) effort to promulgate new standards to restrict stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped construction sites (i.e., post-construction discharges) by November 2012. EPA recently sent out mandatory… Read More
October 27, 2010
AGC Supports Robust Funding for Program and Five-Year Reauthorization
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it will open its application process for fiscal year 2011 National Funding Assistance Program diesel grants this November. The Agency expects to make $60… Read More
October 27, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently revised the compliance deadline for the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule, which affects some construction sites and hot-mix plants. All facilities (i.e., sites) storing over 1,320 gallons of "oils" either by aggregate (i… Read More
October 26, 2010
Seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll employment rose in 16 states and the District of Columbia and declined in 34 states between August and September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday. Over the past 12 months, employment increased in 32 states plus D.C. and dropped in 18… Read More
October 26, 2010
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