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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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Specialty contractors from across the country attended the AGC of America 92nd Annual Convention this week in Las Vegas. The Specialty Contractors Council (SCC) Executive Committee met to discuss future initiatives and the SCC sponsored a session and reception on March 22.
Effective Risk… Read More
March 21, 2011
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AGC continues to urge Congress to repeal the 3 percent withholding mandate on federal, state, and local government contracts. Starting January 1, 2012, public owners will begin withholding 3 percent of every payment to contractors for goods and services.
This week Senators Scott Brown (R-Mass.)… Read More
March 21, 2011
The producer price index (PPI) for finished goods jumped 1.4% in February, not seasonally adjusted (1.6%, seasonally adjusted), and 5.6% from February 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Wednesday.
The PPI for inputs to construction industries—a weighted average of the price of… Read More
March 21, 2011
Dozens of volunteer contractors renovated the home of a Las Vegas family whose 16-year-old daughter is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy that is increasingly forcing her to be wheelchair bound.
The renovation project, organized by ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Charities, Inc., was the group's second annual… Read More
March 21, 2011
Risk management remains critical to the long-term success of all construction companies and the starting point for risk management continues to be insurance. It is therefore important that AGC has persuaded the supreme court of yet another state to hold that the commercial general liability (CGL)… Read More
March 21, 2011
Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R-Texas) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) announced a new proposal for the creation of a federal infrastructure Bank on Tuesday. The legislation, which has yet to be introduced, is called the “Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for the Long-Term… Read More
March 20, 2011
June 21 COAA Webinar Co-hosted by the AGC Lean Construction Forum
Many owners struggle to effectively manage the design of their projects. The process can be complex and unruly; budgets and programs may be loosely defined or tend to creep; and the technical details may exceed the owner's… Read More
March 20, 2011
This week, Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Congressman Jim Matheson (D-Utah) introduced the Good Samaritan for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act, H.R. 1145. Â
This bill would provide construction contractors and other entities limited immunity from liability for… Read More
March 19, 2011
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed - by a vote of 271-158 - a three week continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the federal government through April 8. The vote on the latest CR was much closer than the three previous with the number of no votes increasing by 67 (48 Republicans 19… Read More
March 19, 2011
AGC will host a two-part webinar, April 6-7, to provide compliance assistance training and best practices for federal and federally-assisted construction contractors governed by the requirements of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) – the federal agency… Read More
March 18, 2011