AGC of America is committed to providing its Members and Chapters with access to the knowledge and skills needed to implement the electronic technologies that are changing our industry.  The AGC professional staff, in cooperation with the Electronic Information Systems (EIS) committee, implements and supports a wide spectrum of opportunities for Member utilization of new technologies and understanding of the best practices.

The AGC Electronic Information Systems Committee (EIS) Committee is made up of AGC contractors and dedicated professional associates who have an interest in information technology and promoting its use to their peers in the industry.  AGC of America leadership looks to the EIS team for both strategic direction as well as pursuit of specific emerging technologies.  Membership in the committee is open to all contractors and associates of the organization. The 2010 Winter EIS Meeting will convene from January 28-30, 2010 in Albuquerque, NM.

AGC is collaborating with owners, designers and solution providers on a set of extensible markup language (XML) schemas designed to enable the efficient exchange of electronic construction project information between leading AEC industry software applications.

AGC of America is one of the leading proponents of BIM, which is the process of generating and managing a building information model through the use of three–dimensional, intelligent design information.  The Building Division spearheads AGC of America’s effort to bring broader utilization of this family of project design and management tools.

Other initiatives include:

• AGC eForums
• AGC IT Forum

The AGC eForums are a collection of email listservs dedicated to the exchange of information on various topics.  There are nearly 60 eForums on topics as varied as:  human resource practice and policy, technology, safety and health, taxes and fiscal policy, project delivery, the environment and all of the contracting divisions.

Technology Showcase: the Technology Showcase seeks to help AGC contractors maintain their competitive edge by promoting a contractor-to-contractor exchange of information, ideas, and real world experience with information technology.  The Technology Showcase is a themed event that occurs every other year at AGC’s annual convention.