From monthly archives: February 2023
We are pleased to present below all posts archived in 'February 2023'. If you still can't find what you are looking for, try using the search box.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 2:00 PM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Associated Builders and Contractors today voiced its strong support for the Fair and Open Competition Act (H.R. 1209 / S. 537), which has been reintroduced in the 118th Congress by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., in the U.S. Senate, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 27.
Read the rest of entry »
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 10:25 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Associated Builders and Contractors member Roy Heim, president of Heim Construction Co. Inc., Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, today testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee during the hearing “From Nothing to Something: The Story of the American Dream.”
Read the rest of entry »
Monday, February 27, 2023 5:03 PM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement ahead of congressional Democrats’ reintroduction of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which is set for Feb. 28. Among its many harmful provisions, the PRO Act would violate workers’ free choice and privacy rights, force unions on employees who have voted against such representation, cost millions of American jobs and threaten vital supply chains.
Read the rest of entry »
Thursday, February 16, 2023 9:48 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Construction input prices rose 1.3% in January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released today. Nonresidential construction input prices increased 1.1% for the month.
Read the rest of entry »
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:55 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Associated Builders and Contractors reports today that its Construction Backlog Indicator declined 0.2 months to 9.0 in January, according to an ABC member survey conducted Jan. 20 to Feb. 3. The reading is 1.0 month higher than in January 2022.
Read the rest of entry »
Thursday, February 9, 2023 9:50 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—The construction industry will need to attract an estimated 546,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2023 to meet the demand for labor, according to a proprietary model developed by Associated Builders and Contractors.
Read the rest of entry »
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 10:20 PM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Associated Builders and Contractors President and CEO Michael Bellaman released the following statement responding to President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address.
Read the rest of entry »
Monday, February 6, 2023 9:55 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—The not seasonally adjusted national construction unemployment rate dropped 0.6% in December 2022 from a year ago, down from 5% to 4.4%, according to a state-by-state analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released today by Associated Builders and Contractors. Thirty-two states had lower unemployment rates over the same period, Iowa and Missouri were unchanged and 16 states were higher.
Read the rest of entry »
Friday, February 3, 2023 9:31 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The construction industry added 25,000 jobs on net in January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a year-over-year basis, industry employment has risen by 294,000 jobs, an increase of 3.9%.
Read the rest of entry »
Thursday, February 2, 2023 9:55 AM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Construction Executive, the magazine of the business of construction that is published by Associated Builders and Contractors, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month by unveiling a completely redesigned version of the print magazine with its January-February 2023 issue as well as a new, dynamic content mix on its online platforms.
Read the rest of entry »
Pages:
Previous12NextReturn Top