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Roadbuilding

N.C. high school, middle school students invited to participate in Model Bridge Building Competition, deadline Dec. 31

The North Carolina Department of Transportation invites all North Carolina middle and high schools to participate in its 16th annual Model Bridge Building Competition. The contest is designed to give students a hands-on opportunity to apply their science, technology, engineering and math skills to a real-world scenario. Franklin Academy High School in Wake Forest […]

December 12, 2014

Workforce

BuildOhio.org connects skilled workers to hiring firms, students to industry training across state

Following the release of an Associated General Contractors of America survey in which 83 percent  of U.S. contractors said they can’t find enough skilled craft workers, another of the association’s state chapters has launched a website that looks to help connect these workers and the firms that need them. The AGC of Ohio launched BuildOhio.org last week. […]

November 6, 2014

Roadbuilding

AGC: Cars crashed into 45% of highway contractors’ work zones in 2013

Vehicles crashed into 45 percent of highway contractors’ work zones in the past year, according to the study results released Monday by the Associated General Contractors of America. AGC noted that, according to the study, work zone crashes are more likely to kill motor vehicle operators and passengers than construction workers. Tom Case, chair of […]

April 10, 2014

Business

FIU professor says Florida’s worker shortage is temporary due to likelihood of wage increases

Like their peers across the U.S., contractors in Florida are facing a shortage of skilled workers, as a report from Florida Watchdog details. In Florida, housing inventories are drying up which means that new ones will need to be built as demand rises. Problem is, as we’ve seen in many other places, many of the skilled veterans […]

February 25, 2014

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More funding, charter schools part of AGC’s plan to thwart construction’s skilled worker shortage

During an event at the Washburn Institute of Technology in Topeka, Kansas, the Associated General Contractors of America unveiled its plan to put an end to the skilled worker shortage facing the construction industry. The plan consists of several recommendations with the goal of drawing more young people into the construction industry. In September the association released […]

February 14, 2014

Equipment

Opinion: Why I write about Global Warming on a construction equipment site

A reader from Europe recently asked why I spend a lot of time blogging about global warming and other such environmental topics, as this is a website primarily dedicated to heavy equipment and construction. Since his was a reasonable and well written letter, I did not immediately trash it as one has to with most […]

July 17, 2013

Business

Construction materials prices slip slightly in June, up 1.5% annually

The average cost of materials used by the construction industry plus items consumed by contractors such as diesel fuel fell 0.1 percent in June, according to Associated General Contractors of America’s latest analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, compared to June of last year, construction materials prices were up 1.5 percent. […]

July 16, 2013

Safety

Utah leads U.S. in decline of construction deaths, D.C. tops list of injury declines

Construction deaths declined at a faster rate in Utah between 2008 and 2011 than in any other state, according to new rankings from the Association of General Contractors of America. Derived from an analysis of federal safety data, the AGC’s ranking compared the number of construction deaths for each state with available data and Washington, D.C. in […]

May 21, 2013

Business

Construction, other industries speak out against guest worker deal

Just when it looked like the final hurdle to immigration reform had been cleared, dozens of business groups, including half a dozen representing construction professionals, have called into question a new guest worker program agreed to by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO. As we recently reported, the new guest worker program, called […]

April 12, 2013

Business

Construction materials prices increase 1.3 percent in February

The Associated General Contractors of America has released its Producer Price Index (PPI) report for February, which reveals that construction materials prices increased 1.3 percent between January and February and 2.0 percent from a year ago. The index for new office construction rose 1.0 percent in the past year; new school buildings rose 1.2 percent; […]

March 15, 2013

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Construction jobs on the rise

Construction jobs were added in half the states in August, while the number of states with year-over-year job gains rose to 10 from just six in July, reported the Associated General Contractors. The number of states that increased construction employment during the past 12 months was the largest since October 2008. Illinois gained the most […]

September 27, 2010