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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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ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s Build Now for the Future, A Blueprint for Economic Growth was released September 30 and calls for commonsense initiatives, tax credits and policy changes designed to stimulate new private- and public-sector demand for construction.  During the National and Chapter Leadership Conference in… Read More
October 15, 2009
The administration posted data on October 15 detailing data received from recipients of Recovery Act funds on the Recovery.gov Web site. That data includes all information provided by recipients who were awarded direct federal Recovery-related contracts, grants and loans beginning early in 2009.  … Read More
October 15, 2009
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ and the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) today 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.  CATF represents… Read More
October 15, 2009
On October 13, the Senate Finance Committee finished its two-week markup of a health care reform bill with a 14 to 9 vote to report the bill out of the committee. The only Republican to support the measure was Senator Olympia Snow (R-Maine).   The final committee vote had been delayed to give the… Read More
October 15, 2009
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ and the Clean Air Task force called on Congress to give states the authority to require diesel emissions reductions on federally-funded transportation projects.  The two groups agreed, however, that any such requirement should be made via a contract change order and that the cost of the… Read More
October 15, 2009
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s acclaimed Building to LEED-NC: Overview and the Impact on Construction Practices course examines LEED for New Construction with a focus on the means and methods of construction. Attendees will learn about which prerequisites and credits have impacts on construction practices. The course… Read More
October 15, 2009
U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson appeared before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today to discuss the Clean Water Act and EPA's intention to increase efforts to undertake enforcement actions under the Act. In her testimony to the Committee, Administrator Jackson noted that… Read More
October 15, 2009
The Senate approved, 80-17, a $33.5 billion Energy and Water Appropriations package for FY 2010 and sent it to President Obama for his signature.  The bill provides $5.4 billion in funding for the FY2010 Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program, including:    Construction - $2.031 billion… Read More
October 15, 2009
The Obama Administration proposed a series of rule changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) on October 14 that would address several critical components of the federal acquisition system and management of federal employees and private sector contractors. The first rule would allow the… Read More
October 15, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-the stimulus legislation that President Obama signed in February-contained 61 separate programs with money for construction, by ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s count, with a wide range of administering agencies, formulas and rules. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of variation in… Read More
October 13, 2009