Two Portland contractors have been named Build Washington award winners by the Associated General Contractors of Washington. Advanced American Construction Inc. and Emerick Construction Co. were honored during a gala ceremony on May 21 at the Seattle Art Museum.
SEATTLE, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Washington calls on the Department of Labor and Industries to keep 2012 workers' compensation premiums at their current levels. AGC and partner organizations worked hard to enact workers' comp reforms in the last legislative session. That labor is now bearing fruit: L&I announced that for 2012 premiums the break-even rate (premiums equal expected costs) would be a 0.3 percent decrease. Without the reforms, the break-even rate next year would have been an 8.1 percent increase.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- Through a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, Central Washington University is celebrating the completion of the first phase of a $27 million renovation project at Hogue Hall. The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. in front of the building near Dean Nicholson Boulevard. It will feature speakers including George Clark, Central vice president for business and financial affairs; Rep. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake; Pat McGarry, owner of Manson Construction and president of the board of trustees of the Associated General Contractors of Washington; and Bill Bender, interim associate dean of Central's College of Education and Professional Studies.
Builders who specialize in commercial construction are getting hammered by rising material costs -- with little relief in sight -- according to a new report from the Associated General Contractors of America, a Washington, D.C., trade group. Some costs have doubled from a year ago. Some construction projects also have been postponed or canceled because of the ailing economy and rising costs.
SEATTLE, Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Washington released the following statement today in response to the Deficit Commission's decision to recommend a phased-in 15 cent increase to the federal gas tax as part of its sensible plan to fund critical transportation needs and address the country's growing fiscal imbalance: We are pleased that the Deficit Commission included infrastructure investments in its final proposal," said Tom Zamzow, President of the AGC of Washington. "Although the plan did not receive enough votes among Commission members to be delivered to Congress, the Commission has spurred an important national discussion. As the Congress addresses the alarming budget deficits, we encourage the Washington State Congression...
In contrast to the steep drop in homebuilding, nonresidential construction employment grew at least 0.9 percent from November 2006 to this past November, said Kenneth Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America, a Washington, D.C.- based trade group. Nonresidential construction employment growth is likely higher than that, because many residential construction employees are now doing nonresidential work, even though their employers are still counted as residential contractors, Simonson said.
Two companies with Portland offices won grand awards in the Associated General Contractors of Washington's Build Washington Awards held last month. Sicklesteel Cranes won the Grand Award for safety, taking top safety honors among subcontractors. Lease Crutcher Lewis won the Grand Award for construction.
Raymond Linwood Stanworth III was born Jan. 27, 1947, in Hampton, Va., and passed peacefully from this life into the very presence of the Lord on June 24, 2004. A graduate of Hampton High School and also a graduate of Thomas Nelson Community College, Raymond was an international safety professional with diversified international and domestic assignments who last worked for Bechtel Corporation in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. His international career led him to assignments for Bechtel, Parsons Corporation, Fluor-Daniel, the Royal Commission, and Aramco in Saudi Arabia and for Foster-Wheeler at the Hess Oil Refinery in St. Croix. Domestically, he proudly worked for Perini Corporation on the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., the Associated General Contractors of Virginia and for Daniel C...
The construction industry has built up enormous momentum nationwide. S. construction added 46,000 jobs in January and accounted for a quarter of all of the nation's job growth, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Associated General Contractors.
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