March 2024

March 2024 Issue

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Generation Yes: Recruiting Today’s Construction Management Students

Today’s construction-management students are ready and eager to join the workforce. What can companies do to attract the best and brightest? Get to them early, create a close-knit culture, offer flexibility and travel— and don’t discount their affinity for technology.

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One Milestone at a Time

Breaking barriers can be intimidating for women business owners in construction, but Jessie Cannizzaro never shies away from a chance to better her company and her reputation. As the founder of Milestone Plumbing puts it: ‘Your work ethic needs to be what you strive to work toward and the path that you pick.’

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Steady as They Grow: How Top-Performing Construction Companies Approach Business Growth

Business growth is never an accident. As five ABC Top Performer companies make clear, it results from a combination of tangibles and intangibles—including a proactive mindset, a commitment to health and safety and a cautious appetite for risk.

ABCs

News from associated
builders and contractors

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Nuts & Bolts

Insights & analysis for the
business of construction

Departments

Business

Waging War: Why Ignorance of Wage Theft Is No Excuse

By Matt DeSarno

Does it matter that many if not most of the contractors that engage in wage theft do so unknowingly? Not at all. But new technology solutions can help you avoid it altogether.

Safety

Where's the Fire?

By John Heinen

Fire safety on construction sites is at a crossroads. It’s time for an approach based on collaboration, education and training—and powered by wireless digital solutions.

Workforce

Building TeamBuilder

By Patrick Hennessy

After experiencing chronic problems with workforce planning, Harkins needed an easy-to-use solution that would support not just staffing but training and development. So the general contractor designed and developed one itself.