Recession No More: 2025 Construction Economic Forecast Yields Positive Outlook
No recession in 2025? Anirban Basu seems optimistic about the state of the construction economy at year's end.
What You Need to Know About the Dirt World
Now in its second year, there is no terrible-twos phase for the construction industry’s newest workforce conference, the Dirt World Summit.
Ultimate Building Champ: How Justin Wren Went From Professional Fighter to Nonprofit Builder
‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try spending a night in a closed room with a mosquito.’ That Swahili proverb struck a chord with Justin
Build-A-Brand
Think of your favorite pen: the weight against your fingertips, the smoothness of the ink on paper. Chances are you picked it up at a trade show and you remember
Deterioration of Bridge Infrastructure Is Increasing Insurance Needs
An expert from CAC Specialty gives his insight into insuring bridge construction projects before, during and after natural disaster.
Never Stop Improving: The Lowe’s Foundation Gable Grant Goes to SkillsUSA
The Lowe’s Foundation—the charitable arm of your friendly neighborhood home improvement store—is investing $50 million into skilled-trades training over the
Basu Still Betting on Recession: CE’s 2024 Q3 Construction Economic Update and Forecast Summary
"I have been so surprised that the economy performed this well," ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu admitted in the recent Q3 Construction Economic Update and Forecast
Safety on Tour: Listening to Construction Leaders’ Top Concerns
The American Society of Safety Professionals created the Corporate Listening Tour to gauge directly from the pros what their top safety priorities and concerns are.
When Opportunity Knocks: The New CTE and Business Campus in Forney, Texas
The new Keith Bell Opportunity Central campus in Forney, Texas, is a comprehensive mixed-use facility built to support high-school students in CTE programs—from
Construction Students Jam Out With Ty Pennington at National Skilled-Trades Competition
SkillsUSA is a national skilled-trades competition that is quickly gaining a whole new audience through an online docuseries called SKILLS JAM.
Suffolk Hosts ACE Mentor Students and Spot the Robot Dog
This spring, Suffolk welcomed a group of students to their New York office for hands-on, in-person industry experience and to meet members of their team, one of
Improving Safety in Work Zones Amidst an Uptick in Incidents
A risk control expert from Travelers Insurance offers his insight into the uptick in work-zone related incidents and how he thinks the construction industry could
What Skilled-Labor Shortage?
H.C. Blake may have found the secret to combatting the talent crisis: a multigenerational workforce that learns from each other.
Current Events: Dredging the Great Lakes
Roen Salvage has been working on the water for 75 years. From blasting away at submerged bedrock just off Lake Michigan to rebuilding dikes on the Mississippi River,
History Repeating
Trimble used its scanning and data-sharing technology to bring the ancient Library of Celsus back to life in the virtual world.
A Lesson Plan for Life: ABC’s 2024 Craft Instructor of the Year Paul Asselin
Craft Instructor of the Year Paul Asselin: ‘It’s up to them what success means to them. But I would hope that they constantly evolve and take the little bit
With Great Technology Comes Great Responsibility: ABC’s 2024 Joint Tech Summit
At ABC's 2024 Joint Tech Summit, the message was clear: Creating a culture of technology takes planning, policy and passion.
Great Expectations: Is Your 2024 What You Thought It Would Be?
From interest rates slowing to AI implementation to lagging effects from 2022 and an impending election, can your construction company keep up with what 2024 has
Plan of Steel: Raleigh’s Newest Adaptive-Reuse Project
Transforming a nearly century-old industrial site in Raleigh, North Carolina, into a high-end mixed-use development wasn’t anything new for Brasfield & Gorrie.
Mentoring Gen Z: An Interview With a Young New Assistant Superintendent
Grace Novak was her mentor's first female mentee. She says: ‘The first thing I would tell somebody just starting out in this job is, knowledge is the most valuable
ICYMI: Highlights From ABC Convention 2024
‘Satisfaction is code for ordinary’—and other takeaways from ABC Convention 2024 in sunny Kissimmee, Florida.