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August 26, 2024
ż & Arcoro Workforce Survey
94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies
The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More
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In May 2024, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), along with the Republican members of the Committee, created 10 "Republican Tax Teams" to explore different aspects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Many elements of this legislation, which was the most… Read More
August 22, 2024
A Texas federal judge has struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent rule banning post-separation non-compete agreements nationwide. The ban was originally slated to go into effect on September 4th, but employers can now continue to maintain non-competes as their state laws allow.… Read More
August 22, 2024
Meet Rachel!
Rachel has over 20 years in the areas of customer service, sales, and management experience. For the past 9 years she has dedicated her career to United Rentals Inc., the world's largest rental equipment company where she currently works as a branch manager for one of their middle… Read More
August 22, 2024
With the addition of two new federal bid protests, ż is aware that four ż-member construction firms have now filed federal bid protests objecting to project solicitations that require a project labor agreement (PLA). All four protests have led the government to voluntarily suspend the contract… Read More
August 20, 2024
Once again, top contractors and subcontractors in Western Pennsylvania stepped up to support an important cause in their community.
Fundraising was spearheaded by Jamie Gildersleeve, director of human resources at Mascaro Construction Company, LP, and Naley McKamish, director of marketing &… Read More
August 20, 2024
On August 2, 2024, ż of America filed an amicus brief in a case concerning the scope of the "building and construction industry" exemption from multiemployer pension fund withdrawal liability under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The case, Walker Specialty… Read More
August 18, 2024
Dispute Review Boards (DRBs) help avoid and resolve disputes. ConsensusDocs is offering an upcoming webinar on Dispute Review Boards (DRBs). All ż members receive a discount. Learn how DRBs enhance project success and how you can use DRBs to create a “claim-free zone.” You will also learn… Read More
August 18, 2024
Construction employment increased in 39 states in July from a year earlier, while 29 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between June and July, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America today.… Read More
August 16, 2024
When choosing between the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and ConsensusDocs design-build contract documents, owners and contractors must understand how each will yield vastly different results on critical issues such as managing timely and sufficient design services. Both ConsensusDocs… Read More
August 15, 2024
Here is the background. The Inflation Reduction Act empowered the federal agencies to explore the use of construction materials that have a lower embodied carbon (lower emissions associated with their life cycle). On August 7, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a new carbon… Read More
August 15, 2024