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Construction Gains Were Evenly Split Between Residential and Nonresidential Firms for the Month, But Near-Record Job Openings at End of May Point to Ongoing Challenges in Finding Qualified Workers The construction sector added 23,000 jobs in June while the sector’s unemployment rate fell to the lowest rate ever for the month and pay levels in…

Construction Association Urges Federal Officials to Issue Timely, Clear, and Consistent Regulations That Will Facilitate Spending to Proceed on a Wide Range of Projects Already Approved by Congress Total construction spending in May increased by 0.9 percent from April and 2.4 percent year-over-year as gains in manufacturing construction and single-family homebuilding offset a downturn in major…

Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas and Hanford-Corcoran, Calif. Experience Largest Number and Percentage of Gains; Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Monroe, Mich. Have Most Extensive Construction Job Losses Construction employment increased in 230, or 64 percent, of 358 metro areas between May 2022 and May 2023, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new government employment…

Texas and Arkansas Top List of Yearly Increases, While Colorado and Connecticut Experience Worst Losses; California and Louisiana Lead in Monthly Job Gains, While Indiana and Rhode Island Have Largest Declines Construction employment increased in 42 states and the District of Columbia in May from a year earlier, while only 24 states added construction jobs from…

Construction Firms are Getting Some Needed Relief from Rising Materials Costs, but New Buy America Rules Will Pose a Big Challenge to Firms Trying to Find Materials that Comply, Leading to Increased Costs The price of materials and services used in nonresidential construction decreased 0.6 percent from April to May, while an index that measures…

Most of the Construction Gains Occurred in the Nonresidential Construction Sector While Firms Now Pay Workers 19 Percent More Compared to the Average Job as they Struggle to Recruit New People The construction sector added 25,000 jobs in May while the sector’s unemployment rate fell to its second lowest rate for the month and pay…

Construction Officials Caution that Growing Demand for Many Types of Projects Will Strain Already Tight Labor Conditions, Urge Federal Officials to Boost Construction Education Funding, Reform Immigration Total construction spending in April increased by 1.2 percent from March and 7.2 percent year-over-year as widespread gains in nonresidential and multifamily construction spending offset a continuing plunge…

Congress and the Administration Must Work Together in Future Years to Protect Funding for Infrastructure Projects, Many of Which Have Already Been Announced by the President The Associated General Contractors of America’s chief executive officer, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in reaction to the emerging details of the proposed agreement to lift the…

Decision Forces the Biden Administration to Rethink its Misguided & Unlawful Efforts to Expand the Role of the Federal Government in Local Land Use Decisions The Associated General Contractors of America’s chief executive officer, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in reaction to today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Waters of…

Officials Call for Tougher Safety Enforcement and Education Programs as Annual Survey Details Continued Risks to Drivers & Workers in Work Zones and Workers Plead with Drivers to Slow Down in New Video Fifty-five percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and…