Association News and Events

WASHINGTON, DC — Construction industry leaders remained upbeat with respect to nonresidential construction prospects in March 2019, according to the l...

NSSGA President & CEO Michael W. Johnson sent a letter to President Trump and Congressional leaders on Tuesday in advance of their White House meeting...

WASHINGTON, DC — Associated Builders and Contractors reports that its monthly Construction Backlog Indicator expanded to 9.5 months in March 2019, up ...

PELLA, IOWA – Vermeer Corporation and the US Composting Council (USCC) are teaming up to give organic waste recycling companies a complimentary one-ye...

Winston-Salem, NC — Jack Vernon Nix, Jr., Vice President of Operations for Shelby Erectors, Inc., was named the 2018 Person of the Year by the Steel E...

WASHINGTON, DC — Twenty-four emerging leaders in the transportation design and construction industry participated in an intensive May 13-15 Washington...

WASHINGTON, DC — Associated Builders and Contractors President and CEO Michael Bellaman commented recently on President Trump’s new immigration propos...

WASHINGTON, DC — William D. Toohey, Jr., a long-time American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) senior executive, is the 2018 recipie...

Highway, bridge, and local road projects from Indiana, Utah, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Washington state were recognized for their contribution...

Today (5-15-19), members of Congress and the Highway Materials Group held a press conference on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol that focused on the im...

WASHINGTON, DC — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) May 14 will address nearly 500 transportation design and construction executives, and labor uni...

A draft proposal to develop an occupational standard for the provisionally titled ‘Lifting Equipment Technician’ apprenticeship has been devised, foll...

WASHINGTON, DC — Construction input prices increased 0.9% in April on a monthly basis and 2.4% compared to the same time last year, according to an As...

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) is celebrating its 75 years since its first meeting, held on 3 June 1944, when nine people represen...

WASHINGTON, DC — Richard A. Juliano has been named general counsel of the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (...

Mike Johnson, NSSGA president and CEO, recently appeared on radio stations in Celina, Ohio, Northwest Washington, and the Quad Cities Region of Iowa a...

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI — The ACI Foundation’s Concrete Research Council (CRC) selected six research projects to receive grants this year. The ACI Founda...

WASHINGTON, DC — The construction industry added 33,000 net new jobs in April, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data fr...

WASHINGTON, DC — Estimated March not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rates fell nationally and in 49 states on a year-over-year basis, a...

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – The ACI Foundation is pleased to announce its 2019-20 fellowship and scholarship recipients. The ACI Foundation is a non-profit...