How a Consultant Can Help Transform Your Construction Company Into an Industry Leader
By Chad Prinkey
October 16, 2024
The U.S. construction industry today is operating in a difficult-to-navigate environment. Though 2025 will likely usher in more rate cuts, financing for construction projects remains tight, and the costs of essential building materials continue to run high. Worker shortages and s...
A Mental-Health Scorecard
By Chase Plank
April 23, 2024
At the 2023 Construction Minds Summit—co-hosted by the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention and United Suicide Survivors International in Kansas City, Missouri, last March—more than 400 attendees participated in roundtable conversations about mental health and we...
Mentoring Gen Z: An Interview With a Young New Assistant Superintendent
By Grace Calengor
April 2, 2024
Growing up in North Carolina, Grace Novak always knew she was a builder. Fascinated by Lego toys in her childhood, enthralled with set design and build for her high school’s theater department and captivated by the machine shop at Duke University—where she earned a degree in mech...
Increasing Support for the Increasing Number of Women in Construction
By Shanthi Rajan
March 19, 2024
The construction industry has long been male-dominated, but the tide is turning as more women are making their mark in this traditionally challenging field. It’s invigorating to witness the increasing presence of women in various roles within the industry, and the importance of t...
An Interview With the Women Leading the Way at BELL Construction
By Rebecca Goss
March 13, 2024
It's no secret that construction has historically been a male-dominated trade, but women are making strides in the industry now more than ever. The National Association of Women in Construction reports that more than 1,173,000 women are currently employed in construction, making ...
One Milestone at a Time
By Grace Calengor
February 14, 2024
Jessie Cannizzaro has everything she needs: a fulfilling career, a loving husband and two lovely children, a supportive family and a successful business—Milestone Plumbing, which she founded in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, nearly 15 years ago. But her life didn’t always look this way.
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True Grit: A History of Delmarva Veteran Builders
By Maggie Murphy
November 1, 2023
Visit the website of Delmarva Veteran Builders, and “contractor” doesn’t necessarily jump off the page. In place of project photos and heavy equipment b-roll is an illustration of a stoic young man wearing a military uniform on one side of his body and a DVB-branded polo shirt an...
Breaking Tradition: Changing Your Management Style Might Fill Your Talent Gap
By Briana Flynn
October 13, 2023
One of the biggest challenges facing the commercial construction industry is the availability of skilled workers. In addition to its typical annual hiring rate of 400,000 workers, the construction industry needs to hire an estimated 546,000 additional workers in 2023 to meet curr...
Three Critical Construction Engineer Mindsets to Optimize Success on a Jobsite
By Spencer Jemes
September 21, 2023
Engineers bring invaluable experiences and knowledge to a construction jobsite and help to mitigate conflicts before they occur by considering the goals of every party involved from contractors to key stakeholders. Forecasting potential challenges and delivering solutions to prev...
Hiring and Getting Hired: How Employees and Employers Can Better Connect as Human Beings
By Kathleen Quinn Vatow
September 14, 2023
When everyone shows up as a human being in the hiring process, both the company and the candidate win. Today, human-centric workplaces are where people choose to be.
The construction industry, steeped in masculine tradition, must adapt to find and keep the diverse talent needed ...
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