The Associated Builders and Contractors of Georgia, Inc. (ABC) is a construction trade association representing the commercial and industrial markets with 300+ member companies and more than 2,500 individual participants throughout the state of Georgia.
ABC of Georgia is the construction association that unites the entire construction team - developers, general contractors, specialty contractors, suppliers and industry professionals - to create an environment that encourages members to work together to achieve common goals. We ARE the voice of Georgia's commercial construction industry.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution thinks belonging to an association is extremely benefical, even more so during these ecomonic times. Read the complete article (takes you to the AJC website).
We are located at 8975 Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA, 30350. Click for
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We now have available office space to lease at our new Headquarters, approximately 2,000 total s.q. feet of individual office suites. Our two-story building will soon be LEED
®-certified, and has a state-of-the art training facility, fully-equipped break rooms, ample parking, and newly remodeled offices and conference rooms. Contact Bill Anderson at 770-587-0955 or via
e-mail to learn more.
ABC of Georgia's March membership meeting is a Special VIP Breakfast with the CEFGA SkillsUSA competitors on Friday, March 12, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Day 2 of the 2010 CEFGA Expo and SkillsUSA Championships. Immediately following breakfast, you'll get a chance to network among breakfast attendees, then experience the CareerExpo and SkillsUSA State Championships up close and personal on the Exhibit Hall Floor.
VIP Breakfast: Friday, March 12, 7:30-8:30 a.m., $25 ABC members; $75 Non-members.
Where: Georgia International Convention Center, College Park
Click
here to register online for the VIP breakfast, or download a registration form
here. Career Expo/Skills USA Competition - No charge to attend, Thursday, March 11, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Friday, March 12, 8:00 a.m.- 1 p.m., at the Georgia International Convention Center. This 6th annual event, sponsored and managed by CEFGA, will attract more than 4,000 attendees - mostly middle and high school students interested in learning more about a career in construction - and will be more than double the size of last year's event! Visit
www.cefga.org to learn more and to register, or contact CEFGA's Scott Shelar
shelar@cefga.org or 678-889-4445.
2009 Chairman Les Juneau (left)
passes the gavel to Kevin Grass.
In front of an overflow Maggiano's crowd at the January 28th ABC Annual Dinner & Meeting, Kevin Grass, Principal and Executive Vice President of Noble Investment Group, LLC, assumed Chairman of the Board responsibilities for the upcoming year. Also during the evening: presentation of the "Builders Cup" (awarded to the individual who recruited the most members the previous year), to 2009 Chairman Les Juneau, President of Juneau Construction Company, LLC; new ABC members were noted; 2009 and 2010 Future Leaders were recognized; and Les provided a look back at the 12 months under his tenure, as well as acknowledged outgoing Board members and Committee chairs. In his acceptance speech, newly installed Chairman Kevin Grass thanked Les for his hard work and dedication to the organization, and announced 2010 Board members and Committee chairs. He concluded with thoughts on the Chapter's 2010 outlook.
Popular guest speaker Dr. Roger Tutterow, Economics Professor at Mercer University, returned, providing a
n updated discussion on the state of the ecomony for the construction industry across local, national and global markets, followed by an intense Q&A session. View photos of the evening at ABC of Georgia's web album page at Picasa here.
ABC of Georgia is pleased to announce we are now partnering with ClickSafety, a leading provider of online safety training and record keeping management tools for the construction and engineering industries. With nearly 270 courses, including more than 40 titles in Spanish, ABC of Georgia members will soon have access to comprehensive catalogs of safety and human resource-focused e-Learning courseware. Read more here.
Hardin's winning project, the Atlanta Botanical Garden Visitor Center.
ABC National honored the country's best construction firms at the 20th annual Excellence in Construction and National Safety Excellence awards ceremony earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Hardin Construction Company, LLC of Atlanta, GA, received a Pyramid Award for the Atlanta Botanical Garden Visitor Center & Parking Facility. Safety awards were also handed out that night. Winners were selected from members achieving Platinum status in ABC's Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) program, based on criteria including: self-evaluations, lost workday case rates, total recordable rates and interviews conducted by ABC. Both The Saxon Group, Inc., and W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company won National Safey Excellence Awards in the General Contractor category. Excel Electrical Technologies, Inc. and Hensel Phelps Construction Company each won a National Safety Merit Award. Congratulations!
How would you like to be featured in an upcoming Building Georgia e-newsletter, like those ABC members who participated in the W Hotel project? Well, you can! We want to hear from you - we want to showcase ABC partnerships wherever possible! Contact Diane at ABC of Georgia with your story.
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The W Hotel & Residences project in downtown Atlanta is complete, thanks to numerous ABC of Georgia member companies. Twenty-nine subcontractors partnered with general contractor Hardin Construction Company, LLC, to make the 460,000 sq. ft. structure a reality. "Over $65.4 million in subcontracts and POs were awarded to ABC members to help build the W," said Matt Waddell, Construction Manager with Hardin. Read more on our Doing Business with Other Members page...