News & Updates

WASHINGTON, March 25—Associated Builders and Contractors today announced it is the first building and construction association in the United States to achieve certification as a recovery-friendly workplace from the Global Recovery […]

WASHINGTON, March 17—Associated Builders and Contractors today issued the following statement applauding President Donald Trump’s recent executive order rescinding harmful Biden administration executive actions that needlessly increased costs, restricted competition, […]

WASHINGTON, March 17—At current rates of participation and completion, federal and state government-registered apprenticeship programs, or GRAPs, are still failing to meet the construction industry’s short- and long-term skilled workforce […]

WASHINGTON, March 14—Associated Builders and Contractors today voiced its strong support for the Fair and Open Competition Act (S.1064/H.R. 2126), reintroduced today in the 119th Congress by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., […]

WASHINGTON, March 13—Construction input prices increased 0.6% in February, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released today. Nonresidential construction […]

WASHINGTON, March 12—Associated Builders and Contractors today released an analysis of 2024 state union membership data published by unionstats.com, which found that in 41 states at least 80% of workers […]

WASHINGTON, March 12—Associated Builders and Contractors issued a statement from its Vice President of Regulatory, Labor and State Affairs, Ben Brubeck, on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s announcement […]

WASHINGTON, March 11—The construction industry had 236,000 job openings on the last day of January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today in the U.S. […]

WASHINGTON, March 11—Associated Builders and Contractors reported today that its Construction Backlog Indicator fell to 8.3 months in February, according to an ABC member survey conducted Feb. 20 to March 5. […]

WASHINGTON, March 7—The construction industry added 19,000 jobs on net in February, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor […]

WASHINGTON, March 5—Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement regarding the reintroduction of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, legislation that would violate workers’ free choice and […]

WASHINGTON, March 4—Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement from President and CEO Michael Bellaman in response to President Donald J. Trump’s address to a joint session of […]

WASHINGTON, March 4—Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement responding to Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., on their introduction of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, […]

WASHINGTON, March 3—National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.1% in January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally […]

LAS VEGAS, Feb.28–Associated Builders and Contractors today named the honorees recognized at ABC Convention 2025, “ABC—Building America for 75 Years,” which celebrates the best of the best in merit shop construction, […]

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 28—Associated Builders and Contractors today named the winners of the 2025 ABC Construction Management Competition and the 36th annual National Craft Championships. The winners were honored on […]