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Vision Kwest: Presenting ABC’s 2024 Contractor of the Year

by Christopher Durso | Mar 15, 2024
Cover Story | Culture | Features | Organization Culture

Kwest Group was just supposed to be a regional player in northwestern Ohio. Twenty years, 350 full-time employees and $130 million in annual business later, the nationally known heavy contractor is ABC’s 2024 Contractor of the Year.

Barriers That Are Hurting Your Hiring and Recruitment Efforts

by Samantha Stephenson | Mar 5, 2024
Diversity | Recruitment | Retention | Workforce

To hire based on merit, companies must ensure that their hiring procedures are accessible to everyone.

Five Ways to Connect With Customers to Build Long-Term Partnerships

by Emily Newton | Mar 5, 2024
Business Development | Business Intelligence | Culture | Organization Culture | Productivity

Taking small but mindful steps now can help create long-term relationships with clients later.

New Names and Faces: February 2024

by Construction Executive | Feb 20, 2024
Culture | People

Construction Executive’s monthly round-up of recent appointments and promotions across ABC member companies.

Konell’s Khara Hillis

by ABC | Feb 14, 2024
Culture | Job Interview | Nuts + Bolts | People

Coffee, tea, bingeable tv. Konell's Khara Hillis talks about all that, as well as her three-headed company role and her outlook on the industry, in this latest job interview.

Structural Integrity: Patching Up Group Homes and Transforming Lives

by Ken Budd | Feb 14, 2024
Community | CSR | Culture | Departments

Building New Foundations has evolved from patching up group homes for disadvantaged youth to helping transform the lives of the people living there.

One Milestone at a Time

by Grace Calengor | Feb 14, 2024
Careers | Culture | Features | Leadership | People | Recruitment | Workforce

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.’

New Names and Faces: January 2024

by Construction Executive | Jan 25, 2024
Culture | Organization Culture | People

The latest appointments, promotions and developments among ABC member companies.
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