Barriers That Are Hurting Your Hiring and Recruitment Efforts
By Samantha Stephenson
March 5, 2024
Over the past decade, the construction industry has expanded its workforce by tapping into new segments of workers to find much needed talent. For example, women have seen steady employment gains in recent years. The number of women working in construction grew from 802,000 to 1....
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...
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...
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...
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...
'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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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