By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: March 2,2012
On Tuesday, Charlotte-based Carolinas Associated General Contractors issued a press release about a recent day it spent at the South Carolina State House. The point of the visit: to show support for the Right to Work Act passed in the House and encourage the use of surplus funds in the state budget to fund the [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: April 5,2011
Contractors throughout the Carolinas are concerned about increases in construction costs, despite a relatively stable construction market, the Charlotte-based Carolinas Associated General Contractors said today. In its latest “Barometer” report, Carolinas AGC said that while some areas of construction — such as public works and department of transportation spending — are likely to decline in 2011, construction industry [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: April 5,2011
A U.S. House bill that would prohibit the federal government from requiring contractors to use project labor agreements for some federal projects seemed to be dead earlier this year. But now the resurrected legislation is gaining momentum. After failing to become attached to a bill package in February, the Government Neutrality in Contracting Act, or [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: March 1,2011
Charlotte-based Carolinas Associated General Contractors today named a liaison for CAGC’s highway division members to the South Carolina Department of Transportation. Danny Shealy has served as a SCDOT construction director, CAGC said. “We are thankful to have a professional of Danny’s caliber on our team as we partner with DOT to build a strong transportation infrastructure in [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: December 29,2010
For the second quarter in a row, contractors in the Heartland North Carolina region, which includes Mecklenburg County, predicted much stronger demand for labor in 2011 than 2010, according to the third-quarter Carolinas Associated General Contractors Construction Barometer released today. “While the uptick isn’t the strong surge we once knew, the intensity of the increase [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 26,2010
Desperate times call for desperate measures for most contractors. Bids for Charlotte city bond projects are coming in as low as half of engineers’ estimates, saving the city an estimated average of 20 to 40 percent on projects overall, said Jim Schumacher, assistant to the city manager. That might be good news for taxpayers, who [...]
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