June 2023

Features

Trading Up: ABC’s 2023 Craft Professional of the Year, Jared Foster

by Grace Calengor

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‘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.’

Features

Filling the Boomer Gap

by David McMillin

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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.

Features

Design/Build/Both: ABC’s 2023 Young Professional of the Year, Matt Terry

by Maggie Murphy

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‘We’re really in the business of building people. We just happen to build buildings to do so.’

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That’ll Learn ’Em: ABC’s 2023 Craft Instructor of the Year, Gabriel Galvan

by Christopher Durso

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‘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?’