Features
Your company needs three sets of accounting books: internal, external and tax. Each one should offer timely, relevant information that contributes to your success—and should speak to its own specific audience.
From ABC: In Defense of Free Enterprise
An overview of recent federal regulatory policies affecting the construction industry—and how Associated Builders and Contractors is pushing back on the ones that most disrupt fair and open competition.
Worth It: ABC’s 2024 Young Professional of the Year Mike Menke
Young Professional of the Year Mike Menke: ‘My biggest career accomplishment is the opportunities that I’ve been able to gain to teach others.’
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.’
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 that I taught them and build on that to build themselves a great career.’
The Legal Landscape
From recent developments in payment laws and complications with change
orders to a reshuffling of risk in contract language, new challenges to DEI
policies and more—partners at some of CE’s 2024 Top 50 Construction Law Firms™ pass judgement on the legal issues most relevant to builders and
contractors of all sizes.
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. But that doesn’t mean the project was without challenges, including lead remediation, structural issues and—of course—the supply chain.
Herman Russell’s Big Hustle
H.J. Russell & Company began with an entrepreneurial young boy’s shoeshine stand in Atlanta and has grown into a nearly half-billion-dollar Black-owned construction and development firm with a national reputation. Along the way, the company has intersected with the Civil Rights Movement, helped build the Atlanta skyline and created an enduring culture of entrepreneurial growth.











