Thursday May 2, 2013, 11:30 am at the Aqua Turf Club, Wagon Room.  Featuring Dale Beatty, a combat wounded veteran and co-founder of Purple Heart Homes, along with Staff Sergeant Sandra Lee, a survivor of multiple IED explosions and future recipient of a renovated home in Manchester, plus Jim Earl a volunteer from H.E.A.R.T 9/11. 

Details are available below and on the Sponsorship and Registration Form or contact Carol Hall 860.529.6855.

FUNDING FOR THE CLEAN Water Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRF) was included in last week’s continuing resolution passed by Congress. The Clean Water SRF [...more]

THE OFFICE OF STATE TRAFFIC Administration has adopted regulations Section 14-298-500 updating its uniform system of traffic control signals, [...more]

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm, Aqua Turf Club. Program includes special guest speakers, Jay Hansen, Executive Vice President, National Asphalt Pavement Association and Nasreen Tasker, Global Editor, Argus Asphalt Report with a Presentation on:  Liquid Asphalt | US Supply & Demand Fundamentals. Ad Sponsorships & Vendor Display Tables Available. - complete details [registration flier]

Webinar dates: 2/28/2013, 3/6/2013, 3/14/2013, 3/19/2013 - pre-registration required - Details

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, The Hartford Club

The Keynote Speaker sponsored by Petra Construction Corporation
Kelly Riggs, author and dynamic speaker and trainer in the fields of leadership, sales development, and strategic planning, brings a thought-provoking presentation - Positioning Your Company for the Future: How to Structure Your Organization to Adapt to the Coming Changes.

Plus meet Joseph Jarboe, President, AGC of America and the AGC/CT 2013 Board of Directors.

Reservations with meal selection required by February 6, 2013

For more details down load the REGISTRATION FLIER.

CONNECTICUT’S ‘LITTLE MILLER’ Act applies to any construction, reconstruction, or development property rehabilitation by a municipality, governmental unit, or nonprofit corporation to [...more]

CONNECTICUT PROVIDES an in-state preference for local goods and services, but only when all other factors are equal; agricultural products; and certain small contactors, according to an Office Legislative Research report. The law also [...more]

TRANSPORTATION FUNDING sources may be unknown, but President Obama and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood “have a considerable opportunity to make a mark on transportation,” says [...more]

featuring Brian Deery, Senior Director, Highway & Transportation Division, AGC of America, along with other prominent speakers, is scheduled for next Thursday, January 17, 2013, from 8:00 am to Noon at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Headquarters Building in East Hartford.
Registration & Details:  registration form

MSHA accident investigators and special investigators recently underwent a two-week training program facilitated by the FBI Laboratory's Evidence Response Team Unit. The training covered [...more]

The labor-force participation rate – the share of the adult population that either had a job or was trying to find one – stood at 63.6%, as of September, close to a 30-year low, according to [...more]

who attended, sponsored or participated in the CCIA Annual Membership Meeting and Holiday Reception at the Aqua Turf Club on Wednesday. A crowd of more than 400 attended the event. A special thank you to program sponsor Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming. The annual showcase event was an immense success due to the dedication, generosity and support of CCIA’s loyal members.  Please visit the photo gallery courtesy of Marinelli Photography.

now available on-line with a focus on Construction Material Suppliers.
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A Michigan-based automotive parts company will pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the agency announced.

Health care construction has slowed a bit in the last few years, but it remains a critically important sector [...more]

A construction safety survey (responsed due by months end) is being conducted by an Atlanta labor and employment lawyer who represents employers [...more]

A look at the skills-jobs mismatch finds no evidence that changes in the economy explain high joblessness; the problem is slow growth, according to [...more]

The fatigued driving BASIC will be changed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to the more specific Hours-of-Service Compliance BASIC to [...more]

U.S. EPA is continuing to weigh two proposed alternatives of its Coal Combustion Residuals Proposed Rule and whether to designate coal ash as a “hazardous waste” [...more]

The Technology Update Seminar scheduled for this Friday, November 2, from 8:00 am to 11:30 am has been canceled.  However, it will be rescheduled for December, and a new date will be announced shortly.

The state Department of Revenue Services has extended the deadline for state tax filings and payments due this week to the end of the business day on Nov. 7, 2012, [...more]

The deadlines for employers to make unemployment insurance tax filings and payments and to file a personal property tax declaration or request an extension were extended to Nov. 15, 2012, by  [...more]

A Red Tape Review and Removal Task Force was convened by the Governor to streamline and consolidate unnecessarily burdensome state regulations and mandates, [...more]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has made “significant progress” in implementing the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) Program and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of [...more]

who were honored October 18, 2012 at the Aqua Turf Club before about 330 members and guests. The winners are: (more)

will be honoring Senator Joseph Lieberman at the CRBA Fall Meeting, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 5:00 pm, Aqua Turf Club, Plantsville, CT. Registration is Required. Details

Economic development efforts focusing on infrastructure, such as cleaning up and redeveloping contaminated property, restoring historic structures, revitalizing small town Main Streets, [...more]

Join us to see Who the Winners Will Be!  Nominated by their peers for excellence in their fields - the attached list is this year's list of revered NOMINEES.  The Awards of Distinction will be bestowed to all the finalists on Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:00 pm, Aqua Turf Club, Plantsville, CT.  View the REGISTRATION & SPONSORSHIP Information.

The method used to calculate the ideal amount of money that should be retained in the unemployment compensation trust fund will change  [...more]

The federal motor-fuels tax, at 18.4 cents for gasoline and 24.4 cents for diesel, hasn't changed since 1993. As a result, the tax [...more]

Technical revisions to the Conn. Fire Safety Code proposed regulation from the Dept. of Construction Services, necessitated by adoption  [...more]

A key environmental provision in MAP-21, the new two-year federal transportation bill, is the requirement that states set aside 25% of Construction Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement funds [...more]

now available on-line with a focus on Connecticut's workforce and job growth.
For advertising opportunities in our online and print publication, please contact Jamie Williams - jwilliams@naylor.com or 800-369-6220 ext. 3393

A detailed overview of the construction projects and time schedule of new buildings, [...more]

OSHA has educational materials on its Safety and Health Topics pages to learn about Flood and Hurricane Preparedness and Response, including its Response/Recovery page with a  [...more]

Contractors need to plan for the risks that may arise on a construction project, according to “Dangerous Intersections: Where Environmental and Construction Law Collide on Construction Projects”, [...more]

Light utility/work trucks and trailers were the most frequently stolen construction equipment in 2011, at 36%, according to the 2011 LoJack Construction Equipment Theft Report. [...more]

Methods to detect and track vehicles intruding into a work zone, and to detect missing work zone channelization traffic control devices such as barrels were examined in a report from

The federal budget deficit will total $1.1. trillion for fiscal year 2012, which ends on Sept. 30, 2012, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, marking the fourth year in a row – a first – [...more]

The Regulation Review Committee rejected a proposed regulation from the Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection that would add surface coating emissions requirements

Federal wage and hour lawsuits filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to research by the law firm Seyfarth Shaw using data confirmed by the Federal Judicial Center, show a steady increase

A whistleblower complaint led OSHA to investigate a construction site, where the agency found enough trenching violations to levy a $122,400 fine against a contractor. [...more]

The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Hartford District Office, will present Workforce: Under Construction, on Wed., Aug. 1, 2012, at 1 pm [...more]

U.S. Congressmen Christopher S. Murphy (D-5th Dist.) and Jim Himes (D-4th Dist.) are hosting a jobs fair on Fri., Aug. 10, 2012, at 9 am at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. [...more]

Seventy-five percent of all utilities have corrosive soil conditions and combined with a high portion of Cast Iron and Ductile Iron pipes, one in four main breaks is caused by [...more]

Unnecessary duplication among federal programs costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year, according to the [...more]

The International Playground Contractors Association is presenting the Playground Construction School on  [...more]

IRS resources “continue to be stretched thin, and the current trend of decreased resources coupled with increased complexity exacerbates the problem,” the IRS Oversight Board said [...more]

Engineers and scientists in several states are testing rubber, asphalt and gravel to develop roadway surfaces meant to reduce noise, according to the Wall Street Journal. [...more]

Engineers and scientists in several states are testing rubber, asphalt and gravel to develop roadway surfaces meant to reduce noise, according to the Wall Street Journal. So-called quiet [...more]

Jobsite runoff from rinsing concrete mixer chutes is getting more attention and officials in various states are looking at restricting the practice, according to  [...more]

Preparation is the key to an effective workplace incident investigation, according to Pre-planning for incident investigations, from [...more]

The economic benefits of constructing, operating and maintaining the midstream infrastructure needed to transport domestic energy, such as [...more]

Contractors will now have the right to a hearing to determine whether EPA has authority to issue a compliance order [...more]

AGC of America supports establishing a six-year federal statute of repose for latent defect claims. [...more]

U.S. drivers waste 1.9 billion gallons of gasoline each year, costing them more than $100 billion in lost fuel and time due to traffic delays, [...more]

The Senate-passed transportation bill, MAP-21, would protect 1.9 million jobs nationwide and create one million more jobs through [...more]

The Internal Revenue Service is seeking civic-minded volunteers from Connecticut, among [...more]

The Governor proclaimed April 2012 as Call Before You Dig Month in the state, issuing an official statement encouraging [...more]

The Governor proclaimed April 2012 as Call Before You Dig Month in the state, issuing an official statement encouraging [...more]

Employers seeking to reduce workers’ compensation costs should legitimately advocate for their cause, Workers’ Compensation Commission Chairman John Mastropietro said [...more]

Contractors or subcontractors on prevailing wage projects required to pay an employee’s wages and benefits on behalf of a subcontractor who failed to do so would, under Senate Bill 179,  [...more]

Local boards of education in Connecticut are allowed to take property by eminent domain for school projects, according to a report from the Office of Legislative Research. The board must seek [...more]

The new Director of the Connecticut Department of Labor Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Kenneth Tucker, is featured in the February edition of CONN-OSHA Quarterly. Tucker, [...more]

Municipalities would be authorized to finance certain remediation and redevelopment projects [...more]

Municipal stormwater authorities would be authorized to construct, own, operate and maintain [...more]

Excessive noise that violates a municipal ordinance and results in a citation and three or more arrests constitutes a public nuisance that [...more]

Development within areas around certain privately owned, publicly used airports in the state would require [...more]

Qualified professionals would be able to certify, for general permits issued by the DEEP Commissioner for stormwater discharges, the activity or project covered [...more]

Municipalities would be prohibited from enforcing local building codes or construction standards [...more]

A Modernizing Recycling Working Group that would analyze and make recommendations on how the state can modernize its approach to recycling, reduce waste [...more]

The requirements for posting bonds and other surety to complete public improvements [...more]

Solid waste, including demolition debris, generated in this state and exported [...more]

Converting what is now a liability—nearly $2.5 billion in tax credits state businesses have earned—into a powerful development asset [...more]

The AGC of Connecticut held its 7^th Build CT Awards and 65^th Annual Meeting on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, CT. 

Highlights of the evening included the formal induction of the 2012 Board of Directors and the presentation of Build CT Awards to seven member companies in recognition of individual project excellence for projects built between in 2010 and 2011. [...Details, photos and more]

Tax incremental financing programs would be expanded to include blended financing from property tax, sales tax and income tax to help finance building the [...more]

The maximum allowable unemployment compensation trust fund balance would be increased by Senate Bill 258 filed in the Labor Committee.

The Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities would, according to a summary of the Governor’s midterm budget adjustments, be consolidated with [...more]

Work sharing programs would expand under H.R. 3630, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. The bill, passed by Congress and signed into law, spends more on programs that allow [...more]

Any person who offers conveyor and crane installation, maintenance, repair or alteration services must be licensed to perform such work according to a recent notice restating the requirements and penalties [...more]

The President’s 2013 Budget provides $4.7 billion for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Civil Works, a $271 million or 5.4% decrease from the 2012 enacted level. While it focuses on [...more]

The White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has released a report, Road Map to Renewal, which recommends a pro-business tax overhaul and regulatory streamlining. The year-end report is its third; in its October report, the jobs council recommended reauthorizing [...more]

Connecticut ranks 44th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in small-business friendliness, according to the Small Business Survival Index 2011: Ranking the Policy Environment for Entrepreneurship Across the Nation. The ranking [...more]

Department of Motor Vehicles customers will, within 3 years, be able to renew any vehicle’s registration online as part of the first phase of a three-phase [...more]

The Internal Revenue Service is presenting a free Worker Classification Webinar on Feb. 15, 2012, at 2 pm. The program, which requires registration, is for small business owners and payroll professionals to learn about and will cover employee and independent contractor issues [...more]

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The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s ‘Lead By Example’ program is designed to reduce energy use [...more]

A description and legislative history of the petroleum products gross earnings tax is summarized in a report from the Office of Legislative Research.

The National League of Cities, as part of its 2012 legislative agenda, will advocate for Congress and the Administration to authorize a new federal surface transportation program that [...more]

Enforcement inspections and safety consultation visits were effective in reducing compensable workers' compensation claims rates and lowering employer costs [...more]

Common Ground Alliance, the stakeholder-run organization focused on protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near them, announced [...more]

The Annual Country Infrastructure Capacity Survey suggests that the United States is falling into second-rate status in the infrastructure arena, becoming a country [...more]

The National Conference of State Legislatures, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations, publishes the NCSL Transportation Operations, Management and ITS Legislation Database, which categorizes [...more]

CTI Technology Transfer Center at UConn recently presented a safety brief to municipalities about a new state law, Public Act 11-256, effective Oct. 1, 2011, which [...more]

New York State plans to spend $15 billion on infrastructure improvements, including repair of bridges, road and municipal water system improvements and [...more]

The Mine Safety Accountability and Improved Protection Act, H.R. 3697, was introduced by Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). The bill, which was filed in response [...more]

OSHA was not required to promulgate through notice and comment rulemaking its multi-employer citation policy and could impose multi-employer liability [...more]

The Governor opened his administration for 11 months to Ted Mann, former political journalist for The Day of New London, resulting in a three-week, 20-part series published by Hearst Connecticut [...more]

Congress should fully fund EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council recommends [...more]

Building infrastructure that frames and supports family involvement efforts would help school districts direct resources and programmatic efforts [...more]

Transportation infrastructure would be authorized a one-time $10 billion appropriation to capitalize an existing U.S. DOT program that helps states provide loans, loan guarantees, and other forms of non-grant assistance to leverage private dollars, and [...more]

OSHA’s On-site Consultation Program provides small business workplaces with free, confidential advice and assistance in [...more]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has published Information for Contractors and Vendors, which includes links to contracts, grants, small business opportunities, [...more]

Congress would be required to approve all major federal regulations with an effect of $100 million or more, under H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, passed last week [...more]

Connecticut ranks 22nd among the 50 states, according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall Street, [...more]

Parties to construction contracts and their attorneys now can utilize a powerful new tool for facilitating settlement of disputes, [...more]

CPTV is seeking audience members for Retirement Realities: A Town Hall Meeting, Why So Many Americans Feel Unprepared, a panel discussion, on Thurs., Dec. 15, 2011, [...more]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state organized-labor leaders are exploring the idea of tapping private and public pension funds to help pay for [...more]

State officials in Massachusetts hope that as many as 16,000 jobs will be created by casino development in the coming years but [...more]

A true, fixed-price approach to designing and building complex capital projects is outlined in LePatner C3 Model™: Construction Cost Certainty, a white paper by attorney and author Barry B. LePatner that builds on [...more]

Difficulties in obtaining financing are delaying many otherwise viable projects and therefore holding back a recovery in construction, according to [...more]

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in response to an employer’s request, recently issued a non-binding opinion letter that provides insight [...more]

Proposed Stream Flow Standards and Regulations have been revised and were submitted to the [...more]

New public-health studies and laboratory experiments suggest that, at every stage of life, traffic fumes exact a measurable toll on [...more]

The Department of Administrative Services hosted its first online reverse auction bid recently, when it advertised the need for payloader machinery, [more]

Employees who experience under withholding during this transition year to implement state income tax changes on a catch-up basis, [more]

The twelve-member bipartisan Deficit Reduction Committee, the so-called “supercommittee”, has until Nov. 23, 2011, the day before Thanksgiving, to craft a plan [more]

A significant level of investment, $188.4 billion, in stormwater infrastructure spread equally over the next five years would generate $265.6 billion in economic activity [more]

Stepped-up scrutiny of unemployment benefits is part of the Obama administration’s government-wide effort to reduce the $125 billion in “improper payments” the government made [more]

The Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities is sponsoring an employer seminar, Civil Rights is Good for Business, on Wed., Oct. 26, 2011 at the State Capitol, Room 310, from 10 am to 12 noon. The free program will focus on challenges [...more]

Transforming accumulated tax credits “from a liability to a powerful driver of new investment” would help promote jobs in Connecticut, according to Fred V. Carstensen, director [...more]

Drivers across the U.S. are paying more as more states and communities raise tolls or impose them for the first time to build and repair highways, bridges and tunnels, according to USA TODAY. The article includes a roll-over map [...more]

‘Buy American’ provisions in the American Jobs Act of 2011, S. 1549, which some in Congress may try to pass piecemeal, are identical to the provisions in the Recovery Act of 2009, ...[more]

Contracting revenue from green building construction generated $44.41 billion in contracting revenue last year, a 3.2% increase over the year before,...[more]

The Rebuilding our Economy and Limiting the Impacts of Expected Flooding (RELIEF) Act, H.R. 3089, was introduced in Congress by Rep. Chris Murphy (D-5^th Dist.). The bill would authorize FEMA to make $100 million a year in grants for each of the next five years to municipal governments for flood mitigation projects.

Public Owner of the Year: Keith Epstein, CT State University System; Private Owner of the Year: David Frassinelli, Fairfield University; Designer of the Year: Clarence Welti, Clarence Welti Associates; GC/CM of the Year: Damien Davis, Newfield Construction; Subcontractor of the Year: Robert Berkmoes, James T. Kay Co.; Supplier/Service Provider of the Year: Michael Donnelly, Murtha Cullina LLP; Construction Supervisor of the Year: Marty Tubbs, Manafort Brothers, Inc.; Educator of the Year: Howard Epstein, University of Connecticut; and the newest category, Safety Professional of the Year: Walter Tucker, Petra Construction Corp.

Reporting requirements under a proposed rule issued by the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards would be expanded for labor relations consultants (including attorneys and associations) who [more]

Connecticut will be committing “substantial resources” to energy efficiency, renewable power and innovative technologies, DEEP Commissioner Dan Esty said [more]

Connecticut ranks among the top ten states in terms of an abundance of business regulations, which can result in a business climate that can “hamstring business owners and [more]

Significant changes to the law concerning how developers and builders post performance bonds with municipalities ...made in Public Act 11-79, effective Oct. 1, 2011, [more]

Energy efficiency, renewable energy and Brownfield redevelopment initiatives that promote “green jobs” are summarized in a recent Office of Legislative Research report. The report also discusses [more]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program substantially improves the [more]

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