All Inclusive
The winners of ABC’s 2023 National Excellence in Inclusion, Diversity and Merit Awards set the standard when it comes to building the 21st-century workforce.
Doing the Work: ABC’s 2024 Craft Professional of the Year Joseph Ahrens
Craft Professional of the Year Joseph Ahrens: ‘It’s not who you know
but how hard you work that will decide your future in this merit industry.’
Money Talks: An Exclusive Roundtable on Construction Finance
Capital funds! Business loans! Risk! Labor! Technology! Growth! An exclusive CE roundtable gets to the bottom line on everything you need to know about construction
Keep Going: A Plan for Ensuring Business Continuity
Business continuity is about keeping the lights on today, tomorrow and 20 years from now. A risk-control expert tells CE how companies of all sizes can start planning
Vision Kwest: Presenting ABC’s 2024 Contractor of the Year
Kwest Group was just supposed to be a regional player in northwestern Ohio. Twenty years, 350 full-time employees and $130 million in annual business later, the
‘Nobody’s Coming to Save You’: ABC Convention Speaker Ryan Leak on the Power of Self-Leadership
For ABC Convention 2024 speaker Ryan Leak, truly effective leadership begins with self-leadership. That means separating following from leading, helping yourself
Leadership and Legacy: ABC’s 2024 Convention Speaker
Author and ABC Convention 2024 speaker Kevin Brown thinks construction leaders make a mistake when they approach their legacy as something they leave behind when
Getting Technical: Two Tech Companies Donate to Students in Need
Xcel Strategies is bringing digital-construction training to kids in need—thanks to donations from Autodesk and Cintoo.
On-Time Delivery
Amazon HQ2 is open for business. Construction Executive returns to the multibillion-dollar corporate campus for a post-project debrief with Clark Construction Group—including
General Contractor: An Interview With the Head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon has been a military engineer for 37 years—the last three serving as commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In an exclusive
One Day at a Time
Looking for quality craft workers but lacking the time or expertise to hire and train them? The ‘supplemental labor’ model might be for you.
That’ll Learn ’Em: ABC’s 2023 Craft Instructor of the Year, Gabriel Galvan
‘We have an industry that’s so important—it
literally builds our nation—so how can I bring people into this workforce to sustain that great need?’
All Access
What does best-in-class inclusion, diversity and equity leadership look like?
Let’s ask the winners of ABC’s 2022 National IDE Excellence Awards.
What’s Old Is New
A sustainability retrofit is extending the useful life of a 50-year-old rental complex by slashing its energy consumption and boosting its energy resiliency.
Industrial Revolution: ABC’s 2023 Contractor of the Year
Performance Contractors started out as a small team working on small projects. Today, the Baton Rouge–based industrial contractor is a $1.5-billion company, a
To Catch a Thief
National Roofing Partners lost more than $1 million to a trusted executive’s embezzlement. The company wants to make sure no one else goes through that.
Pardon Our Appearance
It’s CE’s 20th anniversary, and renovations are in progress across our entire brand, including this completely retooled print magazine—a classic B2B publication
The Innovation Game
Duncan Wardle discusses why creativity is everyone’s job, how it can solve for both opportunities and threats and what it means to throw out the rules.
Introducing the All-New CE This Week
For CE’s 20th anniversary, we redesigned the weekly newsletter: simpler, bolder, more impactful—and now with polls!
Electric Slide: Upskilling Labor at Lightning Speed
An innovative partnership in Tennessee is turning out first-year electrician apprentices in eight weeks.
A Matter of Trust: Stephen M. R. Covey
The new workforce demands a new style of leadership. Covey, a ABC Convention 2023 speaker, explains why.