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April 2024 Issue

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Vision Kwest: Presenting ABC's 2024 Contractor of the Year

Kwest Group was just supposed to be a regional player in northwestern Ohio. Twenty years, 350 full-time employees and $130 million in annual business later, the nationally known heavy contractor is ABC’s 2024 Contractor of the Year.
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Infrastructure: Going After IIJA-Funded Work Two Years Later

When is $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending not $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending? When it comes with a lot of regulations and requirements—and is subject to project labor agreements on many jobs. More than two years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law, here’s what merit-shop contractors should know about going after IIJA-funded work.
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History on Deck: A Deeper Dive on the Restoration of the USS Alabama

When it was time to replace the World War II–era teak decking on the battleship USS Alabama, the latest scanning and modeling technology ensured a smooth, safe project—and surety bonding protected its $8.5-million budget against a few unexpected obstacles.
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Business
Keep Going: A Plan for Ensuring Business Continuity

By Christopher Durso

Business continuity is about keeping the lights on today, tomorrow and 20 years from now. A risk-control expert tells CE how companies of all sizes can start planning for it.

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Safety
When OSHA Cites You

By Michael Metz-Topodas

The best defense against an OSHA citation is just that: a good defense. Make sure your safety program has you prepared to respond—and keeps you from getting complacent about your workers’ safety.

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Workforce
Out Is In: Outsourcing Strategies for Small Construction Businesses

By Brad Werner

Outsourcing isn’t just for large corporations. Small to medium-sized companies can also benefit from hiring third-party organizations to perform key tasks, functions or roles.

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Markets
Home Sweet Homestead: Renovating the Omni Homestead Resort

By David McMillin

Renovating the Omni Homestead Resort came with some unique challenges for HITT Contracting. The biggest one: America’s oldest resort is actually older than America itself.

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Culture
Tool Time: DEWALT's Grow the Trades Grant Program

By Maggie Murphy

DEWALT is helping develop the incoming construction workforce through its Grow the Trades grant program—which recently made a generous donation of tools to the ABC of Indiana/Kentucky Prep Academy.

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Closeout: In the Heights

By Construction Executive

Amanda and G. Brint Ryan Tower, University of North Texas at Dallas

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