etting the year started in style, Associated General Contractors, or AGC, of Alaska members met Thursday, May 1, at the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks for a Spring Kick-Off party ahead of an all-day Friday agenda filled with presentations from the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the Alaska Railroad, UAF, Fairbanks-North Star Borough, and City of Fairbanks. Around 150 people attended the Agency Day talks, including the highly-attended lunch presentation by Davis, Wright, Tremaine LLP discussing how to avoid pitfalls when implementing Ballot Measure 1, pertaining to sick leave.
The Thursday reception included a meet-and-greet for prime contractors and Interior-based disadvantaged business enterprises, or DBEs. Some state contracts, particularly for projects within the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, have requirements regarding hiring DBE-certified companies; the meet-and-greet provided an opportunity for networking.
AGC of Alaska would like to thank the Spring Kick-Off and Agency Day sponsors for making the event a success:
- STG Pacific, LLC
- Yukon Equipment, Inc.
- Brice Pacific, LLC
- Great Northwest Inc.
- Brice, Inc.
- Equipment Source, Inc.
- Loken Construction LLC
- Meridian Management Inc.
- Shannon & Wilson, Inc.
- TOTE Maritime Alaska, Inc.
- Alaska Powercom Supply
- Denali Industrial Supply
- F & W Construction Co., Inc.
- Granite Construction Company
- Hale & Associates, Inc.
- Loken Crane, Rigging & Transport, LLC
- North Star Equipment Services
- Olson Creek, LLC
- PFK Enterprises, Inc.
- TDL Staffing