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Texas and Alaska Have Highest Number and Percent of 12-Month Gains, While California and West Virginia Lag; Washington and South Dakota Top Lists of Monthly Gains; New York and Mississippi Have Worst Monthly Losses Construction employment increased in 38 states and the District of Columbia in December from a year earlier, while 26 states added construction…

U.S. Court of Federal Claims Ruling Validates the Associated General Contractors’ Argument that Mandating PLAs for Most Federal Construction Projects Is an Unauthorized Set-Aside The Associated General Contractors of America’s chief executive officer, Jeffrey Shoaf, issued the following statement in reaction to the decision last night by the United States Court of Federal Claims in the consolidated…

New Survey of Utility Contractors Found that Telecom Companies were More than Twice as Likely to Cause 811 Response Delays as other Utilities, as Association Calls for More Timely, Accurate Utility Locates Nearly two-thirds of the utility line strikes by utility contractors during the past year occurred because the lines were at least two-feet away…

Association Survey Finds Most Contractors Expect to Increase Headcount in 2025 amid Optimism about Expanding Opportunities for Nearly All Project Types But are Worried about Workforce and Tariffs Construction sector employment increased by 8,000 positions in December as the industry’s headcount and wages in 2024 both rose faster than in the broader economy, according to…

New Industry Outlook Shows Firms Are Worried About Impacts of President-Elect Trump’s Trade and Immigration Policies Even as They Increase Investments in Artificial Intelligence and Other Technologies to Boost Productivity Construction contractors are optimistic about certain private-sector segments and have high hopes for most types of public-sector work, according to survey results the Associated General Contractors of…

Total Spending Remains Unchanged from October at $2.15 Trillion Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate as the Associated General Contractors of America and Sage Prepare to Release the 2025 Industry Outlook Construction spending was unchanged from October to November as a continued downturn in multifamily and office building construction offset growing demand for single-family houses and data…

Texas and Alaska Have Highest Number and Percent of 12-Month Gains, While California and Maryland Lag; Florida and Minnesota Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage Monthly Gains, While Indiana Has Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia in November from a year earlier, while 23 states and D.C. added construction…

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Anchorage, Alaska Have Highest Number and Percentage of Job Gains over 12 Months, While New York City and Bloomington, Ill. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment increased in 234, or 65 percent, of 358 metro areas between November 2023 and November 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of…

Contractors Continue to Hire Workers as Association Urges Incoming Trump Administration to Accelerate Federal Reviews so Construction Can Start on Infrastructure and Other Construction Projects Construction sector employment rose by 10,000 jobs in November with moderate increases in both residential and nonresidential jobs, according to an analysis of new government data the Associated General Contractors of America…

Construction Spending Climbs to $2.174 Trillion Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate as Federal Projects Get Mired in Red Tape and Private Sector Demand for Certain Types of Projects Slows or Shrinks Construction spending increased 0.4 percent from September to October as a pickup in single- and multifamily residential building outweighed declines in public outlays and mixed…