Diversity

Diversity

Diverse Supply Chains Drive Innovation and Inclusion

A supply chain cannot function without its suppliers, and diversifying the supplier portfolio can help optimize supply-chain performance.

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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.

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Barriers That Are Hurting Your Hiring and Recruitment Efforts

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

How to Succeed in the Construction Industry: A Perspective From a Female General Contractor

By Sloane Brown

July 27, 2023

SLOANE BROWN SWINERTON OPERATIONS MANAGER, NORTHEAST MARKET 1. Do you feel that there is a glass ceiling in the construction field? No, in fact I see construction as a field with limitless opportunities for growth not only for women but really everyone. There are so many diff...

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Diversity

OSHA Joins the EEOC in Analyzing Unsafe Construction Environments

By Cameron S. Hill Sr.

June 6, 2023

Consistent with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) published in January 2023, which noted an increased focus on the construction industry as it relates to harassment and discrimination issues within the workplace and around hirin...

OSHA

Diversity

Strong Roots

By Christie Chapman

May 2, 2023

J. Adam Oglesbee did not imagine, while “growing up poor and Choctaw in southeastern Oklahoma,” that he would one day be the award-winning founder of a company seen as a national leader for its services. Warfeather, the construction company Oglesbee started with one employee (him...

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People

The Glass Netting: Women in Construction

By Rachel E. Pelovitz

March 27, 2023

Construction firms are being hit the hardest by the talent shortage: 93% reported having open positions and 91% of firms were struggling to fill those positions, per a 2022 survey by the Associated General Contractors of America and Autodesk. The solution is glaringly simple, acc...

Careers

Diversity

'Professional Success Is Really About People'

By Rachel E. Pelovitz

March 5, 2023

Although women represent a small percentage of the construction workforce (hovering between 9% and 11%), they can have an outsized impact on the industry’s success. Case in point: Jamie Gentoso, global head of solutions and products business unit at Holcim and president of Holcim...

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Diversity

A Women's Institution

By Jessica Packard

March 1, 2023

With an industry-wide labor shortage and an economy resurging after a global pandemic, the construction industry is scrambling to staff jobs and complete projects. According to an AGC and Autodesk survey in mid-2022, 66% of contractors had projects that were delayed because of la...

Recruitment

Retention

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In Her Boots

By Rachel E. Pelovitz

February 28, 2023

This time last year, Associated Builders and Contractors predicted that the construction industry would need to attract nearly 650,000 additional workers on top of the normal hiring pace to meet the demand for skilled labor in 2022—and would need 590,000 new workers in 2023. For ...

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Diversity

What Contractors Need to Know About ESG

By Brian Gallagher

December 12, 2022

The environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement may have started among institutional investors and their financial partners, but it has expanded across almost all sectors and is becoming increasingly relevant for the construction industry. Many project owners are now requ...

Business Development

Diversity

How to Promote Better Diversity in Construction

By Ross Crayton

December 5, 2022

Diversity is very important in all industries, but some seem to have made bigger strides forward than others. The construction industry is one that is now looking at how to promote greater diversity, encouraging people from all walks of life to come and enjoy the fulfilling caree...

Case Study: Three Tips for Training and Retaining a New Generation of Craft Workers

By Aaron Calhoon

November 28, 2022

We have all seen the stats: The industry needs hundreds of thousands more craft workers to meet demand in the next year alone. Currently, more than a third of the industry is over 50 years of age and, according to NCCER, approximately a third of the workforce will retire by 2026....