CEG - Wed January 22, 2020
Associated Equipment Distributors Members Gather in Chicago for 2020 Annual Summit, AED Fundraising Gala
(L-R): Allen Patterson, regional business manager; Kresten Binder, executive vice president, North America; and Barry Ferrell, regional business manager of Hydrema, offer a line of side and articulated dumps in sizes that are hard to find....
Associated Press - Wed January 15, 2020
Construction Jobs on the Rise in New Mexico for 2020
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) The construction industry is booming in New Mexico and economic development officials in the southeast corner of the state are expecting even more from the industry in 2020. The Associated General Contractors of America reports the state was ranked No....
AGC - Mon January 13, 2020
Construction Employment Increases by 20,000 in December, 151,000 in 2019
Construction employment increased by 20,000 jobs in December and by 151,000, or 2.0 percent, in all of 2019, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America....
AGC - Thu January 09, 2020
AGC: New Proposal Will Make Federal Environmental Review Process More Efficient Without Sacrificing Protections
The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in reaction to the release of the Administration's Proposal to Reform the National Environmental Protection Act Permitting Process on Jan....
AGC - Mon January 06, 2020
Contractors Foresee Gains in All Market Segments in 2020
Construction spending rose 4.1 percent from November 2018 to November 2019, while industry employment grew in 226, or 63 percent, out of 358 metro areas, according to a new analysis of federal data released Jan....
Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Mon January 06, 2020
Economists Make 2020 Construction Predictions
Construction economists are not sugarcoating their outlook on the industry in 2020. The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (ELFF) forecasts slower growth in the economy next year, and predicts equipment investment will be weak....
PC Construction - Tue December 31, 2019
PC Construction Earns Vermont AGC's Best Builders Award
PC Construction was honored by the Associated General Contractors of Vermont with a Best Builders Award for the University of Vermont STEM Complex project in Burlington, Vt. The award was presented in the Academia, New Construction category for outstanding quality of work and effort....
AGC - Mon December 23, 2019
Construction Employment Numbers From November 2018 to November 2019
Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between November 2018 and November 2019, while construction employment increased in 18 states from October to November, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released Dec....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu December 05, 2019
Contractors Discuss Rising Construction Costs
General contractors and subcontractors across the nation are witnessing increases in construction costs, be it for department of transportation contracts or commercial, industrial, institutional and residential projects....
AGC - Tue December 03, 2019
Construction Spending Declines as Decrease in Public, Private Nonresidential Construction Outweighs Strong Pickup in Homebuilding
Construction spending declined 0.8 percent in October from September but topped year-ago levels by 1.1 percent, as decreases in private nonresidential, multifamily and public projects outweighed a recent revival in single-family homebuilding, according to an analysis Dec....
