The AGC Construction Education Committee (CEC) Meeting will be held June 9-11, 2009 at the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA. The CEC will overlap with the AGC Building Contractors Conference and will come together for a joint meeting on June 11, 2009.
 
All participants must register for this event. Note, there is a $75.00 registration charge for this meeting.

If you wish to attend the entire AGC Building Contractors Conference, please register separately.

View the registration form and schedule here.

AGC of America’s popular Build Up! educational resource for elementary-age children has expanded beyond the classroom to Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, to library career centers, and, lately, to Boys & Girls Clubs.

Through a partnership between AGC and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, clubs around the nation are learning about the kits and requesting AGC sponsors provide them with kits. Boys & Girls Clubs, which serve nearly five million youths from more than 4,000 mostly inner-city clubhouses, provide after-school programs and services to promote and enhance the development of boys and girls.

By donating a Build Up! kit to a club in your area, you are both helping the next generation learn about the built environment and their role in it, and providing, fun, hands-on, team-building projects and lessons to children ages 9-12.

We still need sponsors for more than 350 kits for Boys & Girls Clubs around the nation. Please visit our interactive map to see if there’s a club in your area looking for kits. This map is updated weekly with new requests being added and fulfilled requests being deleted. So far AGC members and chapters have donated more than 50 toolkits to clubs nationwide.

Each kit costs $199 plus shipping and provides enough materials for 30 children. If you would like more information or have questions, contact Liz Elvin at elvinl@agc.org.

The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) has announced that Ivan Crossland, of Crossland Construction, Columbus, Kansas, will serve a three-year term as the AGC representative on its Board of Trustees.

Rick Graves, senior vice president of operations of Fluor Enterprises Inc., Dallas, Texas, will serve as chairman of NCCER’s Board of Trustees in 2009. Carole Bionda, vice president of legal and personnel, NOVA Group, Napa, California, will serve as the 2009 NCCER vice chairman.

AGC member Chip Reid, of Current Builders; Pompano Beach, Florida, also was elected to serve on the board for the first time; while AGC members Alan Burton of Cianbro Corp., Pittsfield, Maine, and Keith Byrom of Zachry Construction Corp., San Antonio, Texas, were re-elected to their positions on the board.

NCCER’s Board of Trustees consists of representatives from contributing contractors, owners, and NCCER partnering associations. All trustees are recognized for their expertise in construction or construction-related issues and serve a one- to three-year term.