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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Louisville, KY, April 29, 2016] — Concord announced today that Managing Member Dennis J. Stilger, Jr. has been named to committees of two major national engineering associations.

The Architectural Billings Index ended the first quarter on an upswing, increasing to 51.9 from 50.3 in March.

The American Institute of Architects criticized the U.S. Senate for passing S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which repeals energy-efficiency targets in federal buildings passed in 2007.

The confidence of engineering CEOs continued to grow in the first quarter of 2016, according to the Engineering Business Index (EBI) compiled by the American Council of Engineering Companies.

The Committee on the Environment of the American Institute of Architects has issued Lessons from the Leading Edge, a study of nearly 200 award-winning sustainable design projects that demonstrate COTE’s mission to “enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment.”

Construction employment increased by 37,000 jobs in March, making a total of 300,000 jobs added over the past year, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

The Architectural Billings Index inched up in February from its January drop — from 49.6 to 50.3.

Last month, February construction unemployment hit its lowest level since the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) started keeping records in 2000.

Construction spending in January reached its highest level since October 2008, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) — $1.141 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, 1.5 percent higher than the upwardly revised December total and 10.4 percent higher than in January 2015.