October 26 – December 7, 2021
2 – 4 p.m.
We’re excited to kickoff AGC’s IT Conference Webinar Series this fall. If you missed the IT Conference, or had to choose between two sessions, here’s your opportunity to catch those dynamic speakers during this series. We scheduled two webinars each day, for a total of eight webinars. Your registration covers access to all webinars, and is complimentary for attendees of the 2021 IT Conference.
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Procore’s $250,000 challenge gift will help fund scholarships for Black and minority students at HBCUs
AGC and Procore announced during September's Annual Convention the launch of a new scholarship program to assist African-American and minority students studying construction fields at historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. The new scholarship is being made possible thanks to a $250,000 challenge gift from Procore that the association will now fundraise to meet and, hopefully, exceed. The scholarship program will be administered by the AGC Education & Research Foundation and is part of a broader effort by AGC to make the industry more diverse and inclusive.
Visit here to learn more about the scholarships and make your contribution today.
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AGC hosts webinar; continues dialogue with agencies; engaged legal counsel
On October 14, AGC held a webinar—free for AGC members—with the prominent federal procurement law firm Crowell & Moring to run through the ins and outs of the federal contractor vaccine mandate from a construction contractor perspective. A recording of the webinar and its slides will be made available shortly. The General Services Administration also held its own webinar on October 13, the slides from which can be found HERE and a recording will be made available by the agency soon. For more information on how other federal agencies are addressing this mandate, click HERE. AGC is maintaining ongoing dialogue with many of the major federal construction agencies and will meet with them at the association’s Federal Contractors Conference November 8-9 in Washington, D.C. As with the OSHA ETS COVID-19 testing mandate, AGC similarly retained outside legal counsel weeks ago to evaluate legal options to challenge this requirement and has received a legal memorandum to guide the association’s actions.
The association and its members have encouraged voluntary COVID-19 vaccination for their employees since the vaccines became available. The construction industry has proven throughout the pandemic that it can work in a safe and essential manner. OSHA has previously deemed many construction activities as low exposure risks.
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AGC seeks meeting with White House; Engaged legal counsel
On October 12, the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) sent its draft emergency temporary standard (ETS) to the White House for review, a signal that a final ETS could be issued within a matter of days or weeks. The OSHA ETS will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is either fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or mandate that any workers who remain unvaccinated produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis. AGC plans to meet with the White House to share a host of concerns about the ETS. It should be noted, however, that AGC engaged outside legal counsel weeks ago to provide a legal memorandum that identifies the standards that OSHA must meet to justify using the ETS process instead of the normal administrative procedures that are typically employed. After AGC reviews the final, published ETS, the association will measure it against its legal memorandum to determine whether a court challenge is warranted and evaluate our chances for success.
AGC and its members have encouraged voluntary COVID-19 vaccination for their employees since the vaccines became available. The construction industry has proven throughout the pandemic that it can work in a safe and essential manner. OSHA has previously deemed many construction activities as low exposure risks.
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Firm wins AGC Innovation Award for developing a virtual reality safety training program
Chicago-based Pepper Construction was named the most innovative construction firm in the country for developing a virtual reality safety training program by leveraging tools and staffing resources that were already in place to create a “real life” safety learning environment. As a result, Pepper Construction was named as the grand prize winner of the AGC Innovation Awards, sponsored by Autodesk.
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Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword, but an environmental, economic and social driver that’s changing our day-to-day lives in almost every way imaginable. This is obvious throughout the business community, in which committing to sustainable practices is no longer a “nice to have” but a “must do” as the negative impacts of climate change become more obvious and ominous, with the potential to alter everything from supply chains to profitability.
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The information contained in these articles represents the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of AGC of America.
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