ASAC reconstitutes Charlotte chapter,
creating competition for NC subcontractor
association representation
North Carolina Construction News staff writer
The American Subcontractors Association of the
Carolinas (ASAC) is reconstituting its Charlotte chapter,
creating a circumstance where two associations will
now vie to represent the community’s subcontractors.
The other organization, the North Carolina Subcon-
tractors Alliance (NCSA), was formed in 2013 by former
ASAC’s Charlotte-area board members who decided
then that both the ASAC and the association’s Char-
lotte chapter “were in a death spiral of high costs and
declining membership,” according to the NCSA’s web-
site. “The board unanimously voted to call a special
meeting of membership to vote on withdrawing and re-
naming the organization North Carolina Subcontractors
Alliance. At the special meeting, with 16 of 18 mem-
bers present, and hearing both sides of the argument,
the vote to withdraw was 15-1.”
However, new ASAC Charlotte chapter president
Mark Muller of Wayne Brothers Inc. writes in a recent
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note that “at the end of last year a group of members
put together a steering committee to discuss and plan
the future of the ASAC Charlotte chapter.”
“We met numerous times over the past months and
I am pleased to inform you that we are moving forward
with a plan to revitalize the ASAC Charlotte chapter and
bring it back to a prominent position in the construc-
tion industry in the Charlotte area.”
The new chapter’s first activity will be a social at the
Sugar Creek Brewery Company on April 5. “This event
will be the first of several socials, but we have some
exciting educational programs on the agenda as well,”
Muller wrote.
Notably, as this issue of North Carolina Construction
News goes to press, the NCSA was in the final stages
of preparing for a social event at the same brewery, the
annual “Sub Paddy’s Day Event” which the NCSA says
“provides a great opportunity to network and social-
ize,” open to subs, suppliers, general contractors and
invited associations.
The NCSA is affiliated with the National Subcontrac-
tors Alliance, while the ASAC is associated with the
American Subcontractors Association (ASA).
“Unlike the ASA which has a high overhead large
central office in Washington DC, the NSA has only two