Construction Job Openings Down Nearly 40% From a Year Ago
By ABC
December 6, 2024
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—The construction industry had 249,000 job openings on the last day of October, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job opening as ...
Ready for Takeoff
By Jordan LeGras
December 4, 2024
As parents to a 13-year-old autistic son, Jason San Souci (late-diagnosed autistic) and his wife, Nicole Corder, have been actively involved in the neurodiverse community for years. As their son, Blake, entered his teen years, the pair started thinking about his future career opp...
Ultimate Building Champ: How Justin Wren Went From Professional Fighter to Nonprofit Builder
By Grace Calengor
December 4, 2024
Born in 1987 to “the best mom ever,” Justin Wren made his way from Greeneville, Mississippi, to Fort Worth, Texas, where everything is bigger—even the bullies. “From the third grade to the eighth grade,” Wren says, “I was incredibly, heavily, relentlessly bullied—to the point of ...
The Power of 'Why': Optimizing New Employee Onboarding
By Anne Lackey
December 4, 2024
Managing a new employee can be a challenge. A newcomer doesn’t know your company’s environment, routines, or do’s and don’ts. They’re hungry for validation, and you’re likely too busy to offer much. You have work to do, and getting another person up to speed adds more weight to y...
Hot Shots: 2024 CE Photo Contest
By Construction Executive
December 4, 2024
With the construction industry changing at a rapid pace thanks to the advent of AI, shifting climate conditions and increasing demand placed on workers amid a shrinking skilled-labor market, Construction Executive asked its readership to showcase what it’s like to work in today’s...
ABC 2025 National Chair, Executive Committee Announced
By ABC
November 25, 2024
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—Associated Builders and Contractors today announced that David Pugh, a partner at Bradley in Birmingham, Alabama, was elected 2025 chair of ABC National Board of Directors during its meeting at the association’s annual Leadership Institute in Scottsdale, Arizo...
Evaluating the Effect of Historic Masculinity on the Construction Industry's Future
By Evelyn Long
November 21, 2024
Traditional masculine societal norms have historically prioritized physical strength, emotional suppression and self-reliance, values that are still prominent within the male-dominated construction industry. While the industry has increased efforts towards inclusion, diversity an...
Three Ways to Optimize Success With a Multigenerational Construction Workforce
By Kayla Bukhin
November 15, 2024
In 2024, as many as five generations could be working together. Defined by Pew Research Center, these are the Silent Generation (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964), Generation X (1965 to 1980), Millennials (1981 to 1996), and Generation Z (born after 1997). While ...
Construction Can Look to Gen Z and Technology to Sustain Talent Pipeline
By Kit Dickinson
November 5, 2024
With a documented labor shortage in construction and an abundance of construction projects, construction business leaders in need of growing their workforce have an opportunity to tap into Gen Z to help build and sustain their talent pipelines over the long term.
Research publis...
Casting Call: Recruiting the Next Class of Construction Leaders
By David McMillin
November 4, 2024
Construction firms have been struggling to attract enough trade professionals to keep projects on schedule, but there’s another mountain ahead that may be even harder to climb: finding new leaders who are comfortable standing at the top of the figurative ladder. When consulting a...
Recommended for you
Workforce
Dirt Nerd: How Aaron Witt Built His Multimillion-Dollar Construction Media Company Before Age 30
By Maggie Murphy
Meet Aaron Witt, a young entrepreneur who started Instagramming cool construction photos eight years ago, and today runs his own multimillion-dollar construction media services company. When it comes to construction, he says, ‘the love was always there’—and now, he’s on a mission to make what he affectionately calls ‘the dirt world’ a better place.
Workforce
September Construction Job Openings, Distorted by Storms, Decrease by 40,000
By ABC
There is more than meets the eye, especially when it comes to construction job openings for September.
Workforce
Never Stop Improving: The Lowe's Foundation Gable Grant Goes to SkillsUSA
By Grace Calengor
The Lowe’s Foundation—the charitable arm of your friendly neighborhood home improvement store—is investing $50 million into skilled-trades training over the next five years, with a $1-million Gable Grant going to SkillsUSA.