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Mon, 07/01/2024 – 14:07 Census Bureau’s First Estimates for Data Centers Show Outlays Jumped 69 Percent Since May 2023; New Breakout Reveals Private Office Construction Plunged 18 Percent in Latest 12 Months Construction spending declined by 0.1 percent between April and May to a seasonally adjusted rate of $2.139 trillion, amid declines in demand for a range…

Tue, 06/25/2024 – 13:57 Texas and Alaska Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage Year-over-Year Increases, While Maryland and D.C. Trail; Ohio Has Largest Number and Percent of Monthly Gains, While Tennessee and Maine Have Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 39 states in May from a year earlier, while 26 states added construction jobs between April…

Mon, 06/24/2024 – 15:08 Associated General Contractors of America Argues New Rule Exceeds Statutory Authority Under the Davis-Bacon Act, Court Agrees  The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) celebrates a significant legal victory in its ongoing efforts to protect members from overreaching federal regulations. Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas…

Thu, 06/13/2024 – 09:00 Eighty Percent of Federal Postsecondary Education Funds Go to Degree Programs that Only 38 Percent of Americans Complete, While Construction and other In-Demand Sectors Struggle to Find Qualified Workers Only one-fifth of federal investments in postsecondary education support workforce development for fields like construction and manufacturing, while the rest of the…

Fri, 06/07/2024 – 11:22 Despite Job Growth That Outpaces Total Nonfarm Employment Gains, Contractors Continue to Struggle With Shortages of Skilled Workers to Build Data Centers, Factories, Power, and Infrastructure Projects The construction industry added 21,000 jobs in May and 251,000 jobs over the past year, with increases at both nonresidential and residential construction firms,…

Mon, 06/03/2024 – 12:12 Construction Spending Remains Up by 10 Percent Compared to a Year Ago, However, as Most Firms Continue to Struggle to Find Enough Qualified Workers to Keep Pace with Demands for New Projects Total construction spending inched down from March to April with declines in public projects and a mixed pattern among…

Wed, 05/29/2024 – 11:36 Baton Rouge, La. and Fairbanks, Alaska Have Highest Number and Percentage of Year-over-Year Job Gains, While Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, Colo. and Augusta-Richmond County, Ga.-S.C. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment rose in 218, or 61 percent, of 358 metro areas between April 2023 and April 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors…

Thu, 05/23/2024 – 12:30 Workers Plead with Drivers to Slow Down in New Videos, Construction Officials Call for Tougher Safety and Education Measures as Annual Survey Details Growing Risks to Drivers & Workers from Work Zone Crashes Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles crashed into their construction work zones during the past…

Tue, 05/21/2024 – 12:33 Groups Oppose Occupational Safety and Health Administration Measure that Forces Contractors to Let Potentially Anyone, Regardless of Safety Training, Construction Experience or Intent onto a Jobsite Today, the Associated General Contractors of America, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of business groups, filed a lawsuit in the…

Wed, 03/13/2024 – 10:17 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale and Lawton, Okla. Top Lists of Year-over-Year Increases in Industry Employment While New York City and Decatur, Ill. Experience Worst Number and Percent of Construction Job Losses Construction employment increased in 231 or 65 percent of 358 metro areas between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors…