By Terry D. Bennett, LS LPF MRICS LEED® AP, Autodesk
Today's civil engineers and general contractors face tight timelines and even tighter budgets, especially in the current challenging economy. To finish highway, utility, and site construction projects on time, within budget, and up to… Read More July 7, 2010
Time is running short for Congress to take action on a multi-year highway and transit reauthorization bill. SAFETEA-LU authorization expired on September 30, 2009 and the program has been operating under short term extensions ever since. In addition, the Highway Trust Fund is depleted and… Read More July 7, 2010
EPA's Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program (RRP) rule was fully implemented on April 22, 2010. Under the current rules, contractors who perform renovations, repairs and/or painting projects in most pre-1978 housing, child-care facilities and schools (i.e., that have, or are assumed to… Read More July 7, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program (RRP) rule was fully implemented on April 22, 2010. Adding to the already complex regulatory regime, EPA has just taken three new actions that widen the rule's potential impact on the construction… Read More July 6, 2010
Following months of AGC and other transportation construction stakeholders successfully lobbying Congress and the administration to restore $8.7 billion of rescinded highway contract authority, the House of Representatives is poised to take $2 billion of that unobligated money away to offset a $… Read More July 2, 2010
Nonfarm payroll employment shrank by 125,000, seasonally adjusted, in June as the end of 225,000 temporary Census jobs swamped modest private-sector gains, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The unemployment rate was 9.6%, not seasonally adjusted (9.5%, seasonally adjusted, down… Read More July 2, 2010
View ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Chief Economist Ken Simonson's presentation on the outlook for construction activity, materials and labor.
July 2, 2010
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT FALLS TO 14-YEAR LOW IN JUNE; INDUSTRY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TOPS 20 PERCENT
 Seasonally adjusted construction industry employment slipped in June to the lowest total since July 1996 while the industry's unemployment rate remained at 20.1 percent, more than double the average… Read More July 2, 2010
Seasonally adjusted construction industry employment slipped in June to the lowest total since July 1996 while the industry's unemployment rate remained at 20.1 percent, more than double the average for all workers, according to AGC's analysis of new federal figures.
"The recession may have ended… Read More July 2, 2010
** Action Requested **
 Time is running short for Congress to take action on a multi-year highway and transit reauthorization bill. SAFETEA-LU authorization expired on September 30, 2009 and the program has been operating under short term extensions ever since. In addition, the Highway Trust Fund… Read More July 1, 2010
