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In 2018, 鶹Ƶof America will celebrate 100 years of serving the construction industry. While we celebrate and recognize the past and the present, we are also looking to address the issues currently affecting the industry, in order to ensure the future of construction. In this spirit, 鶹Ƶis introducing the Autodesk Innovation Awards to provide incentive to encourage free thinkers within the field to provide pioneering solutions to a challenge faced daily by its members.

Marketing is an activity that is critical to the success of your business. If you do not have a focused plan and approach to marketing, your efforts might look scattered, inconsistent, unprofessional and...ineffective! Good marketing is the result of good planning and disciplined execution and these two elements always have a solid Marketing Plan to support them.
The Business Development Best Practices are an ongoing effort by the 鶹ƵBusiness Development Forum Steering Committee to bring more BD resources and best practices to the 鶹Ƶmembership. Written and developed by industry experts in Business Development, these best practices cover a wide range of topics, from relationship building and sales to marketing and proposals.
AGC’s BuildCon 2017 will feature a session designed to help you understand how and why the terms of traditional construction contracts are altered by prefabrication and modular construction.
Need a vendor? Reach thousands of suppliers and service providers in one place: AGC's official purchasing directory, Constructor Marketplace. This site places you in contact with vendors from more than 50 categories -- everything from acoustical and drywall to windows -- quickly, so you can get the materials or the help you need to get the job done right. Use Constructor Marketplace's free Request for Proposal (RFP) Automator to request custom project bids from multiple Marketplace vendors with just a few clicks.
Craig Clark, President and CEO of Dynalectric and Chair of the Specialty Contractors Council, was selected as Chair of the Year by 鶹ƵPresident Mark Knight from a list of impressive nominees.
鶹Ƶof America’s Past Chair of the Lean Construction Forum Steering Committee, Jeff Esgar, Sundt Construction, was asked to contribute an article based on AGC’s Lean Construction Education Program’s Unit One course entitled: “Variation in Production Systems” for the Lean Construction Blog.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET) This lively, information-packed WebEd, brought to you by the 鶹Ƶof America Business Development Forum, presents industry experts, Ken Simonson, Chief Economist, Associated General Contractors of America and Cliff Brewis, Vice President of Operations for Dodge Data Analytics as they provide construction industry leaders and Business Development professionals national and regional construction market predictions in light of a new presidential administration.
The Business Development Best Practices are an ongoing effort by the 鶹ƵBusiness Development Forum Steering Committee to bring more BD resources and best practices to the 鶹Ƶmembership. Written and developed by industry experts in Business Development, these best practices cover a wide range of topics, from relationship building and sales to marketing and proposals.
At the 鶹ƵAnnual Convention in Las Vegas, NV, the Building Division by acclimation elected Douglas Maibach as Chairman for 2017-2018. Doug is Chairman of Barton Malow Enterprises and Executive Vice President of Barton Malow Company in Southfield, Michigan. He is a very active leader in local community and industry organizations.