News

Featured Story
Construction Association Releases First-of-its-kind Decarbonization Playbook To Help Firms Assess, Track & Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
April 22, 2024
  The Associated General Contractors of America released today a new, first-of-its-kind, decarbonization playbook designed to help firms assess, track and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the projects they build. The new resource, titled The AGC Playbook on Decarbonization and Carbon… Read More

AGC News

Recent Stories

Producer Price Indexes (PPIs) for Construction Materials and Components - September
PRODUCER PRICE INDEX FIGURES SHOW LIMITED-TIME CONSTRUCTION COSTS SALE COMING TO AN END, TOP CONSTRUCTION ECONOMIST SAYS September Data Shows Costs for Most Construction Materials Higher with Copper, Aluminum and Steel Seeing "Significant" Increases  Construction costs, which had been relatively… Read More
October 20, 2009
AGC Meets with NRWA in Louisville at H20 Expo
The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) represents approximately 26,696 public water and wastewater utilities in rural communities across the United States. On October 4, AGC Staff and M&U Regional Representative Dick Smailes, Contractors Association of West Virginia member, met with NRWA… Read More
October 20, 2009
Buy American Update
AGC has been active in our efforts to ensure that the "Buy American" requirements of the Recovery Act did not seriously delay $6 billion allocated for drinking water and wastewater projects being administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and $1.4 billion allocated for the USDA'… Read More
October 20, 2009
S. 1005 Update
AGC and the Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) Coalition continue to push the Senate to bring S. 1005 Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2009 to the floor of the Senate.  On October 7, the WIN Coalition sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calling for action on S.1005. S.1005… Read More
October 20, 2009
What every construction job means for the economy?
When Chris Doris lost his construction job in Reno, it wasn’t just his bank account that took a hit.  As this Reno Gazette Journal story shows, even one lost construction job spells economic troubles for local restaurants, retail, government and financial institutions.  Anyone that wants to… Read More
October 19, 2009
MHC, Reed foresee partial construction upturn; IP, CPI rise for month but lag '08 levels
"The level of construction starts in 2010 is expected to climb 11%," McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) forecasted on Frday, "following the 25% decline predicted for 2009. 'The U.S. construction market in 2010 will be helped by growth for several sectors, following three straight years of decline that… Read More
October 19, 2009
Mark Your Calendar to Attend AGC’s HR Professionals Conference and Training & Development Conference in Atlanta!
Attend AGC’s HR Professionals Conference and Training & Development Conference October 27-29, in Atlanta and learn what you need to know to be successful as an HR or T&D professional in the construction industry.  With expert speakers providing compliance-related guidance for HR… Read More
October 18, 2009
Alabama Institutes Industry Fee for Recruitment Campaign
The Alabama AGC has joined in a coalition with other trade associations, unions, and owner groups to form the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute (ACRI) and launch a statewide image-recruitment campaign designed to bring field personnel into the non-residential construction industry. The… Read More
October 17, 2009
EPA Submits Report to Congress Outlining Diesel Grant Program Results
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report to Congress this week detailing the health, environmental and economic benefits of the Agency's Diesel Emission Reduction Program. The program, funded at $50 million last year, allowed EPA to fund the purchase or retrofitting of 14,… Read More
October 16, 2009
AGC and Clean Air Task Force Reach Landmark Accord, Call for Diesel Cleanup in Federally-Funded Transportation Projects
Yesterday, AGC of America and the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) announced that the two organizations have agreed on principles to require reductions in diesel emissions from federally-funded transportation projects via contract change orders that cover 100 percent of the costs to retrofit equipment… Read More
October 16, 2009

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. © 2020 Associated General Contractors of America. License granted for limited use with attribution under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Warranties are disclaimed and conditions do apply.