Award Winners

What do you call a company that puts people before profits? A company that values lifelong education over low overhead? A company that does nearly $1 billion in annual business while its leadership stays firmly connected to the boots on the ground bringing its projects to life? Y...

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 26—Associated Builders and Contractors today announced the honorees for the 2025 Construction Workforce Awards: the Craft Instructor of the Year, Craft Professional of the Year and Young Professional of the Year. These three construction professionals are shaping ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Associated Builders and Contractors today announced its 2025 Top Performers lists, recognizing its contractor members’ outstanding achievements in safety, quality, inclusion, project excellence and special designations ranked by number of hours worked. The No...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—In a few weeks, nearly 200 of the nation’s best construction professionals in trades such as carpentry, electrical, HVAC, millwright, plumbing and welding are set to compete at the premier skilled trades contest in Las Vegas on Feb. 26 at Associated Builders a...

"We’ve got to turn this into a T.V. show.” That is what John Montgomery, co-executive director of the Skilled Careers Coalition, said when he attended SkillsUSA, a national skilled-trades competition for teens, in 2021. But well before television, the first federal law in the Uni...

Construction Executive magazine is excited to announce it was named a finalist for the 2024 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, in both the Eddie and Ozzie categories: Eddie: Single Issue, November 2023 Ozzie: Website Redesign For print, digital, news, blogs, podcasts and other med...

Every year, ABC’s National Excellence in Inclusion, Diversity and Merit Awards honor ABC member companies that “display exemplary inclusion, diversity and meritocratic leadership in their workforce, supply chain and community, with best-in-class recruitment policies, retention pr...

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: “...

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...

“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...