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August 26, 2024
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ & Arcoro Workforce Survey
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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In part two of this series, we explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can streamline critical construction project workflows by automating time-consuming and repetitive processes like building a submittal log and tracking changes to… Read More
July 16, 2021
On July 14, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ outlined its priorities for the bipartisan infrastructure package to the group of bipartisan senators who are drafting the legislation. In addition to significant investments in physical infrastructure, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ calls for investing in the construction workforce, streamlining the federal… Read More
July 15, 2021
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ recently submitted extensive comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft 2022 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Construction General Permit and supporting materials, based on member input. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ addressed the construction industry’s main concerns… Read More
July 15, 2021
Unprecedented price increases for a wide range of goods and services used in construction pushed up contractors’ costs by a devastating 26.3 percent from June 2020 to June 2021, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government data released today. Association… Read More
July 14, 2021
Each year the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Education and Research Foundation offers undergraduate and graduate level scholarships to students enrolled in ABET or ACCE accredited construction management or construction related engineering programs. The application opened July 1, 2021 and closes November 1, 2021.
Over $10… Read More
July 14, 2021
Event Will Take Place on October 13th in St. Louis, Missouri
Registration has now opened for ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ of America’s inaugural National Construction Industry Workforce Summit. The summit, which is taking place on October 13th in St. Louis, Missouri, is designed to bring together leaders in the… Read More
July 12, 2021
Construction employment declined by 7,000 between May and June as the industry still employs 238,000 fewer people than before the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government data released today. Association officials said that job losses in the… Read More
July 2, 2021
The deadline to submit and certify 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data HAS BEEN CHANGED. The new filing deadline is NOW Monday, August 23, 2021. After delaying the opening of the 2019 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collections on May 8, 2020, in light of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S… Read More
July 1, 2021
Despite the ongoing recovery from the pandemic, the construction industry is expected to experience low unemployment with little expectation that the current domestic workforce can alone meet future employment demand. Compounding the workforce challenges in the industry, currently the nation’s… Read More
July 1, 2021
On July 1, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3684, the INVEST in America Act, a $715 billion federal investment in America’s roads, bridges, transit, passenger rail, and drinking and wastewater infrastructure. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ lobbied against several of the policies included in the bill. However,… Read More
July 1, 2021