Transportation experts discuss bipartisan plan at ACEC event

A software developer with a focus on quantifying weather risk in the insurance industry has branched out to apply its chops to the development of a hyperlocal software-as-a-service weather risk-management system for construction that launched Jan. 29.

A special congressional committee missed its Nov. 30 deadline for developing a plan to help troubled U.S. multiemployer pension plans.

AGC of Indiana holds annual meeting

Observers see interim administrator Andrew Wheeler (left) staying the deregulation course of his ousted predecessor Scott Pruitt.

Last year was a good year for the Associated General Contractors of America. AGC members got a boost from a business-friendly Trump administration that began rolling back regulations like the blacklisting rule and push through a tax-cut package that lowers the pass-through rate.

The nation’s contractors expressed a surprisingly optimistic view of the industry’s prospects for 2018 in a recent outlook survey conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America and Sage Construction and Real Estate.