Features
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 interview with CE, he discusses when he decided on his career path, how the Corps’ crushing workload is its greatest challenge and biggest opportunity—and why he’s ‘definitely a soldier first.’
The Truth About Brand Marketing: It’s for Construction Companies of All Sizes
A brand is ‘the intangible sum of a company’s services, values, experiences, reputation, people and purpose.’ Communicating that authentically is the key to finding and keeping clients and employees alike.
Bringing Home the (Fancy Italian) Bacon: How to Build a Next-Gen Food Plant
An Italian company wanted to put its first U.S. cured-meats factory in a Missouri college town. Stellar designed and built them a technologically advanced, highly automated facility that prioritizes employee wellbeing—and did most of the job during COVID.
Trading Up: ABC’s 2023 Craft Professional of the Year, Jared Foster
‘I wish when I was in high school that I had what they have now, and that is people who are invested in the trades, actually pushing for people going to the trades.’
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?’
Filling the Boomer Gap
Construction companies were already struggling with a massive talent shortage—but now its effects are being multiplied by the large-scale retirement of baby boomers, who are taking incalculable skills and experience with them. Replacing them will require finding new ways of telling the full story of what it means to be a craft professional.
Design/Build/Both: ABC’s 2023 Young Professional of the Year, Matt Terry
‘We’re really in the business of building people.
We just happen to build buildings to do so.’
Moving Images: 2023 CE Photo Contest
The winning entries in the 2023 CE Photo Contest capture construction in all its lifting, hauling, sparking, hammering glory.











