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The 2024 Construction Hiring and Business Outlook
January 4, 2024
Construction Firms Have Mixed Outlook For 2024 As Expectations For Demand Remain Mostly Positive, But Less Upbeat Than Last Year Amid New Challenges New Industry Outlook Shows Firms Are Counting on Public Sector, Data Center and Manufacturing Construction to Offset Declines in Retail, Lodging… Read More

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EPA Administrator Orders Overhaul of Clean Water Act Enforcement Program - More Reporting, More Inspections, More Public Oversight!
The U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has directed the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) to examine its Clean Water Act enforcement program and report back to her in early October with an action plan to strengthen and improve the Agency's enforcement efforts.  This new… Read More
September 2, 2009
Progress with EPA ARRA Funds and 'Buy American' Updates
AGC anticipates that a large number of water infrastructure projects funded with EPA "Stimulus" funds will hit the streets in September and October.  According to the EPA, significant progress is being made processing assistance agreements with state water authorities, which will likely translate… Read More
September 2, 2009
Common Ground Alliance's DIRT Report Finds Underground Utility Damages Declining
The Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a partner of AGC, is the nation's leading organization focused on protecting underground utility lines and the safety of people who dig near them. On August 25, 2009, CGA announced findings from its comprehensive 2008 Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT) Report… Read More
September 2, 2009
Register Now for the November AGC Highway & Utilities Issues Meeting
Join your AGC colleagues at the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida for the AGC Highway & Utilities Contractors Issues Meeting. This meeting is the premier national event for contractors and related businesses involved in every aspect of highway and utility construction… Read More
September 2, 2009
Your Input Needed to Solve Lending Crunch
AGC members continue to report that developers are unable to get loans for commercial real-estate (CRE) projects, and many members have had their own lines of credit tightened or canceled. These observations match the latest survey of senior loan officers by the Federal Reserve, which the Fed… Read More
September 1, 2009
Construction spending slips but homebuilding rises; states vary on highway stimulus
Construction spending in July totaled $958 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), 0.2% less than the downwardly revised June total and 10.5% less than in July 2008, the Census Bureau reported today. (Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique to remove normal weather- or holiday-… Read More
September 1, 2009
Nonresidential Construction Slides in July
Downturns in multi-family construction and both private and public nonresidential construction swamped a strong upswing in single-family homebuilding in July, according to AGC's analysis of federal construction spending data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. "We know from contractors'… Read More
September 1, 2009
Construction Spending - July
NONRESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION SLIDES IN JULY AS STIMULUS DOLLARS 'TRICKLE' OUT TO CONTRACTORS, TOP INDUSTRY ECONOMIST NOTES Private Nonresidential Spending Falls for Fifth Straight Month While Homebuilding Surges Downturns in multi-family construction and both private and public nonresidential… Read More
September 1, 2009
AGC Hosts Third Meeting of Real Estate and Construction Group to Discuss Climate Change Impacts on Industry
On Thursday, August 13, AGC hosted a meeting of real estate and construction stakeholders to discuss the impacts of legislative and regulatory efforts to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary and mobile sources on the industry.  The meeting is the third AGC has convened with… Read More
September 1, 2009
Metropolitan Area Construction Employment - July
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT SHRINKS IN 319 OF THE NATION'S 336 LARGEST METRO AREAS IN JULY, CONTINUING MONTHS-LONG SLIDE Reno-Sparks, NV & Wenatchee, WA Have Worst Job Losses, Columbus, IN and Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Again Have Largest Increases in Construction Employment ARLINGTON, VA -… Read More
August 31, 2009

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