Training

"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...

Contractors have been contending with labor shortages for several years. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this will materially improve any time soon. Two trends indicate that contractors and their supply-chain partners will need to get even more creative to successfully naviga...

As of 2024, more than one in seven adults in the United Kingdom say their mental health is either poor or the worst it has ever been. The U.K.'s National Health Service spends more than £300 billion a year dealing with the consequences of poor mental health, and the crisis isn’t ...

To keep pace with demand, contractors may need to hire 500,000 more workers this year above their normal pace of hiring, according to Associated Builders and Contractors. This at a time when many businesses still struggle to hire skilled workers. The data shows there’s a tight l...

Construction companies of all sizes are facing a common challenge: the need to optimize their operations and drive sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive and less predictable market. One solution that has emerged is a greater reliance on outsourcing—hiring external pro...

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...

As demand grows for construction projects, finding and retaining qualified workers has become—and remained—increasingly difficult. To help overcome the labor shortage, BELL Construction—a leading construction company in the Southeast providing general contracting, design-build an...

In an industry where people are the primary assets of the organizations that perform the work, one of the toughest and most important challenges is effective workforce planning. For Harkins, a general contractor headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices throughout the mid...

Before Rebecca Barrows started her junior year of high school outside of Houston, she assumed that her next step would be a collegiate architecture program. But a visit to New York City for an architecture camp in the summer of 2018 changed her direction. “We visited a hospital t...

The building construction and service industry is ripe for disruption and further digital innovation. As the field evolves, it’s becoming increasingly complex, requiring workers to have advanced skills and knowledge of modern equipment and technology, such as digital building aut...