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The Power of ‘Why’: Optimizing New Employee Onboarding

by Anne Lackey | Dec 4, 2024
Departments | Recruitment | Retention | Workforce

Employee onboarding can make or break a new hire’s transition into your workforce. Here are essential tips to ensure the process helps new hires get up to speed as efficiently as possible.

Breaking the Silence

The construction industry is facing a silent but critical challenge: employee mental health. One in four construction workers has admitted to contemplating suicide—one of the highest rates across all sectors. Companies can no longer be silent.

Hammers, Saws, Drills…AI?

by Ken Budd | Dec 3, 2024
Departments | Institutional | Markets | Public

At the University of Tennessee, Juneau Construction is using AI as a powerful tool to spot delays before they happen.

Build-A-Brand

by Grace Calengor | Dec 3, 2024
Business | Business Development | Departments

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 exactly from whose booth you got it—proving that some of the most unique and impactful branding methods are often the simplest.

Closeout: Justice Is Served

by Construction Executive | Nov 7, 2024
Departments | Institutional | Markets

Justice is sweet but the modern, light- and foliage-filled courthouse in San Antonio is sweeter.

On the Front Lines: Influencing Construction Site Safety

by Nancy Novak | Nov 5, 2024
Departments | OSHA | Safety | Wellness

No one has more influence on construction site safety than frontline supervisors, also known as foremen. Their impact on a project’s overall success cannot be overstated—and that’s particularly true for safety. But those responsibilities are a heavy burden given the dangers of working in our industry.

‘Ten Toes Down’: Excel Construction’s $15,000 Annual Donation

by Jordan LeGras | Nov 4, 2024
Community | Culture | Departments

Beauty, even in the built environment, comes at a price—one that Excel Construction of Florida intends to pay in full by donating $15,000 in construction materials and labor each year to a nonprofit organization in south Florida.

A Pickle of a Project: Swinerton’s New Eatertainment Venue

Converting a former factory into a pickleball “eatertainment” center presented challenges. But for Swinerton, the work—like the sport—has also been fun.

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The Power of ‘Why’: Optimizing New Employee Onboarding

Breaking the Silence

Hammers, Saws, Drills…AI?

Build-A-Brand

Closeout: Justice Is Served

On the Front Lines: Influencing Construction Site Safety

‘Ten Toes Down’: Excel Construction’s $15,000 Annual Donation

A Pickle of a Project: Swinerton’s New Eatertainment Venue

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