News

Featured Story
New Survey Shows How Nation鈥檚 Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  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鈥檚 failure to invest in construction鈥 Read More

AGC News

Recent Stories

Webinar: BIM 101 for Owners鈥擣rom Tech Talk to the Bottom Line
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. ET 聽 Building Information Modeling (BIM) provides owners the information needed to make impactful decisions that improve construction project performance and speed project completion. BIM combines the latest in design and collaboration technologies to鈥 Read More
March 25, 2010
FAA Reauthorization Moves Forward
The Senate this week passed legislation to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs and funding for two years. Included in the legislation is $8.1 billion for the Airport improvement Program (AIP), the primary source of federal funding for airport capital projects, $4 billion in鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
Work Zone Awareness Week
National Work Zone Awareness week is scheduled for April 19 - 23, 2010, and the theme is 聽"Work Zones Need Your Undivided Attention." As in the past, the purpose of the week is to bring to the attention of motorists, contractors, construction workers and the media the special dangers that are鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
Transportation Track Included in AGC Federal Contractors Conference
The 2010 AGC Federal Contractors Conference will be held April 26-29, 2010, at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. This meeting is the only national event where contractors and federal agency personnel can meet in a collaborative forum to review federal construction contracting issues and鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
Transportation Construction Coalition Fly-In May 25-26, 2010
While Congress has passed legislation to keep the highway and transit programs operating through the end of the year and provided funds to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through the first quarter of 2011, much work still needs to be done. Senators and representatives need to understand the鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
9-Month Highway Program Extension Approved
On March 18, 2010 the Senate gave final approval to the 鈥淛obs鈥 legislation and President Obama has signed it.聽The bill, known as the "HIRE Act", includes the following provisions of importance to the highway construction industry: 鈥 Extends highway program authorization through December 31, 2010鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
AGC Supports Effort to Stop EPA Climate Change Actions
AGC sent a letter聽to Senator Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska) on February 12, 2010, in support of S. J. Res. 26, a bipartisan resolution that would block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act.聽 Cosponsored by 37 Republicans鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
Federal Government Solicits Comments on Green Jobs Definition
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is seeking public comment on the definitions and categories it plans to use to collect data on the number, occupational, industrial and geographic distribution of green jobs. AGC is pleased to report that the BLS, in seeking a definition that is鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
DOL Releases New Version of Employment Law Guide
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently released an updated version of its Employment Law Guide, an online publication for workers and employers that describes the major employment laws administered by the department. According to a press release issued by DOL on November 30, 2009, the Guide鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010
President Obama Signs Health Care Bill
On Tuesday, March 23, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, capping a year of intense and at times partisan debate. In the end, 34 Democrats joined all Republicans in opposing the measure in the House, and all Republicans opposed the measure in the Senate鈥 Read More
March 24, 2010

Notice for AGC News Releases

Notice of Permission to Use

AGC retains the copyright to all of its news releases but grants a license for their limited use with attribution under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Warranties are disclaimed and conditions do apply. Following are the acceptable attributions:

  • News Media: Any attribution that meets the editorial standards for such media.
  • All Others: This is [a reprint, an excerpt or an adaptation] of a [exact date with hypertext link] News Release by the Associated General Contractors of America. 漏 2020 Associated General Contractors of America. License granted for limited use with attribution under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (). Warranties are disclaimed and conditions do apply.