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The 2022 CE Photo Contest showcases construction in three categories: diversity, workforce and tech/tools. See the eye-dazzling results for yourself.
By Rachel E. Pelovitz
May 5, 2022
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The construction industry has seen a dramatic shift over the past two years. Technology has evolved rapidly to solve global problems. The workforce has evolved to confront COVID-19, offsite construction, new regulations and a shortage of skilled workers. Diversity is increasingly important, with women in construction growing from 9% to 11% since 2019.

With this changing landscape in mind, CE relaunched its social media photo contest—last seen in the pre-pandemic year of 2019—with three categories: Diversity, Workforce, and Tech and Tools. We invited construction contributors, including contractors, subcontractors, vendors and photographers, to showcase their companies and the daily dedication to the merit shop by posting photos using the hashtags #CEPhotoContest, #MeritShopDiversity, #MeritShopTech, #CEPhotoConTech and #MeritShopWorkforce.

They did not disappoint us. See for yourself by checking out the winners of the 2022 CE Photo Contest.

GOOD CATCH: John Dunn, senior safety manager (left), and Thomas White, lead man (right), at the University of Louisville Campus on East & Westbrook’s Belknap Project. While on the jobsite, White noticed that a disabled student’s wheelchair was going to overturn. He quickly ran to her rescue, preventing her powered chair from tipping over onto the pavement.

KEEPING CHECK: Jason Marsh, sheet metal superintendent, and Laura Michaelson, project engineer, review a bill of materials from MTech’s sheet-metal prefabrication shop at the CSU Spur Hydro jobsite.

MANAGEMENT MATERIAL: Jovi James Guthrie, daughter of North River Mechanical Inc. owner Josh Guthrie, brings her dad lunch and “supervises” the crew at the University of Alabama Hewson Hall jobsite.

STRONG AS STEEL: Carrying a sledgehammer, Marker’s Kelli Deal installs smooth dowels in the side of an existing concrete placement at Peak Industrial Park, a 100,000-square-foot facility in northwest Ohio.

DAILY FIBER: As the sun rises on Jan. 10, 2022, PlasTech’s confined space attendant monitors a fiberglass tanker from Texas for a reline inspection at PlasTech’s home office in Baltimore.

WIRED RIGHT: Southwest Industrial Electric’s Aaron Funez works on a distribution panel, wiring installation for electric-vehicle charging stations.

CHECKING IT TWICE: From left to right—Curt Guthro, director of field operations; Ryan Decker, assistant carpenter; and Derek Croft, assistant carpenter. Onsite at the new office space for Metro Walls around Christmastime 2021, Northpoint Construction Management reviews plans before the installation of exterior awnings.

FUN FACT: This is a “headache ball,” aka an overhead hook ball. This device safely keeps tension on load lines when lifting and lowering—in this case, on an HB Construction jobsite.

DRILLING DOWN: Cajun successfully installed hundreds of drilled displacement piles for the construction of a nitric acid storage and loading facility in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, in July 2020. The project involved a specially designed drilling tool with a high-torque, high-crowd rotary drill rig.

DIGGING IN: Morgan Construction’s new Cat 6015B excavator working in the Northern Alberta oil-sands mining region.

JUST RIGHT: A Forum Works builder fabricates a custom reception desk.

FLYBOYS:Project managers use Komatsu’s smart construction dashboard along with drone topography data to help visualize the jobsite.

by Rachel E. Pelovitz

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