A Sustainable Workforce Starts With You

U.S. population growth slowed for the fifth year in a row, to an all-time low of 0.35% between July 1, 2019 and July 1, 2020 from 0.46% a year earlier, according to AGC’...
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December 28, 2020
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in November trailed pre-pandemic February levels in 35 states and exceeded them in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to...
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December 21, 2020
A cost squeeze for contractors eased slightly in November as the producer price index (PPI) for new nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors...
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December 14, 2020
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, increased in October by 27,000 to a total of 7,360,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday....
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December 08, 2020
Construction spending in October increased 1.3% from September and 3.7% from October 2019 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.439 trillion, the Census Bureau reported...
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December 03, 2020
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in October trailed pre-pandemic February levels in 37 states and exceeded them in 13 states and the District of Columbia,...
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November 23, 2020
A cost squeeze for contractors intensified in October as the producer price index (PPI) for inputs to new nonresidential construction increased for the sixth consecutive month (up...
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November 16, 2020
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, increased in October by 84,000 to a total of 7,345,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today....
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November 09, 2020
Three-fourths of the 1,077 respondents in AGC’s October 7-19 coronavirus survey, released on Wednesday, reported that an owner had postponed or canceled at least one...
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November 02, 2020
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in September exceeded pre-pandemic February levels in only eight states and the District of Columbia, according to AGC’s analysis...
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October 26, 2020