The Build Your Career (BYC) “Contractors in the Classroom” program is designed to place CAGC’s BYC Ambassadors directly in schools throughout the Carolinas region. The goal of this program is to educate students, their parents and teachers on the many amazing benefits of pursuing a career in the construction and craft trade industry. Through ongoing outreach programs…
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North Carolina Construction Outlook
While racking up thousands of miles driving throughout the Carolinas, it’s amazing how much construction work is going on these days with building, highway-heavy and utility work. Construction workers and often clogged highways are everywhere at a time when one of our biggest challenges is attracting more people into our excellent construction industry. The U.S….
CAGC Young Leaders Spearhead “Operation Give Back” to Support SCDOT Families Who Lost Loved Ones
This holiday season Carolinas AGC’s (CAGC) Young Leaders will be giving back to two families of SCDOT employees who lost their lives on the job in July 2019. David Sibbick and Cecil Morgan were killed when they were struck by a driver while patching a pothole on US-501 near Myrtle Beach. Please read the stories…
Goosie Kennedy of D.R. Reynolds Honored as BYC Ambassador
Carolinas AGC (CAGC) Foundation’s Build Your Career (BYC) workforce development initiative has named Goosie Kennedy its first BYC Ambassador of the Quarter – part of a new recognition program rolled out this month. A project manager with general contracting firm D.R. Reynolds Company, Inc., Kennedy is not only an active Build Your Career Ambassador, but…
Operation Give Back: CAGC Young Leaders Spruce Up Housing for Homeless
The Carolinas Associated General Contractors (CAGC) Young Leaders drew 13 volunteers to Catherine’s House on Friday, September 20 for the group’s Fall Operation Give Back Project. The project started with just two residents’ rooms; however, CAGC volunteers were in high gear and managed to paint the two residents’ rooms, a sitting room, and multiple pieces…
CAGC Members Honored for Extraordinary Safety Efforts
Carolinas AGC (CAGC) has announced the list of construction company members who will be honored for their safety excellence during the association’s 2019 Annual Summit in Asheville at the end of July. The following companies achieved a safety record that ranged between Zero lost time incidences to an annual incident rate that is below the…
Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson to Give Summit Keynote Address at CAGC Summit
The Carolinas AGC announced that Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson will give the keynote address at the CAGC Summer Summit & Expo in Asheville, NC. The event will take place July 25 – July 28 at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. Keynote Speaker Willie Robertson, the CEO of Duck Commander and Buck Commander and…
CAGC’s BYC Ambassadors Build Construction Industry Workforce
The Carolinas AGC Foundation’s Build Your Career workforce development initiative hosted its Spring 2019 Ambassador Summit Series meetings in Columbia, SC and Raleigh, NC. More than sixty CAGC Build Your Career (BYC) Ambassadors—our volunteer “boots on the ground” industry professionals—attended these meetings. “The biggest challenge the construction industry continues to face is attracting and recruiting new generations of workers into…
Wage and Hour Division Davis Bacon Survey Extended for N.C. Metropolitan Counties
According to Carolinas AGC (CAGC), the US Department of Labor has announced that the deadline for submitting information for the Davis Bacon wage survey of Building construction in the metropolitan counties of the state of North Carolina has been extended. Information regarding the Davis-Bacon survey program as well as support for completing forms is available…
CAGC Honors 2018 Pinnacle Award Winners at Annual Convention in Charleston
Carolinas AGC (CAGC) bestowed the 2018 Pinnacle Awards to five construction projects which enhance their communities. A sixth Pinnacle, the “Build with the Best” award, was given to an individual who spent his career assisting the construction industry. The Pinnacle presentation was made on January 26 at CAGC’s Annual Convention in Charleston, S.C. Pinnacle entries…
