Worth It: ABC's 2024 Young Professional of the Year Mike Menke
By Maggie Murphy
June 3, 2024
Mike Menke was just 22 years old when he attended his first-ever ABC Convention as captain of Colorado State University’s Construction Management Competition team. As he sat in the crowd watching ABC’s Construction Workforce Award honorees take the stage, he thought to himself: “...
Doing the Work: ABC's 2024 Craft Professional of the Year Joseph Ahrens
By Christopher Durso
June 3, 2024
The last thing Joe Ahrens wanted to do was go into the family business. That would be Ahrens Corporation, the plumbing and civil-contracting company his grandfather and uncle founded in San Diego in 1981, where his father, brother, uncles and cousins also worked.
Ahrens didn’t w...
A Lesson Plan for Life: ABC's 2024 Craft Instructor of the Year Paul Asselin
By Grace Calengor
June 3, 2024
“Just being able to watch ’em grow up and become the people they are, and you see ’em at this young age. It’s just great. Just great.”
ABC’s 2024 Craft Instructor of the Year, Paul Asselin, is an instructor at Gould Construction Institute in Woburn, Massachusetts—the education a...
Pipe Dream
By Christopher Durso
March 30, 2022
Before the big client portfolio, before the diversified business units, before the recognition from OSHA, before the sprawling headquarters with the gleaming boardroom and the multiple fabrication shops and the on-premises welding school—before all of that, there was just Mark Mo...
Popular Mechanics: ABC's Construction Workforce Awards
By Rachel E. Pelovitz
March 28, 2022
Associated Builders and Contractors presented Construction Workforce Awards for the 2022 Young Professional of the Year, Craft Professional of the Year and Craft Instructor of the Year at its national convention in San Antonio on March 15. Here is a sneak preview from full profil...
Nominations Open for 2022 ABC Construction Workforce Awards
By Construction Executive
July 27, 2021
The 2022 ABC Construction Workforce Awards—sponsored by NCCER, Tradesmen International and Autodesk—honor the top craft professional, craft instructor and young professional in the construction industry. Help highlight construction as a meaningful lifelong career by nominating so...
'Never Say No'
By Maggie Murphy
June 7, 2021
Husband. Father. Coach. Hobby rancher. Mayor. Vice president and partner of his company. Jim Ellis holds a lot of titles for a man who hasn’t even hit the age of 40—and all of these achievements have led to him being named Associated Builders and Contractors’ Young Professional o...
Sparking Success: Award Finalists
By Rachel E. Pelovitz
June 7, 2021
JOHN PINELO, SR.
Sales Engineer
Federal Technology Solutions Inc.
Electrical and Low Voltage Programs Instructor
Associated Builders and Contractors – Southern California
Corona, California
After more than 30 years in the electrical/low voltage sector, John Pinelo Sr., sales eng...
Many Hands Make Metal Work
By Rachel E. Pelovitz
April 8, 2021
When making rounds at PEBCOR (dba Big-D Metalworks) in Dallas, a question that might get different answers at other companies receives the same, exuberant reply. What do you enjoy most about working here? “The people.”
This might be because the projects are challenging and, as s...
ABC Award Deadlines Approaching Fast
By Construction Executive
September 23, 2020
Associated Builders and Contractors is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Construction Workforce Awards, National Excellence in Construction Awards and 2020 Diversity Excellence Awards.
2021 Construction Workforce Awards
Honor the best in the merit shop construction commun...
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