How to Succeed in the Construction Industry: A Perspective From a Female General Contractor Cover Art

How to Succeed in the Construction Industry: A Perspective From a Female General Contractor

By Sloane Brown
July 27, 2023
SLOANE BROWN SWINERTON OPERATIONS MANAGER, NORTHEAST MARKET 1. Do you feel that there is a glass ceiling in the construction field? No, ...
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OSHA Joins the EEOC in Analyzing Unsafe Construction Environments

By Cameron S. Hill Sr.
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Consistent with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) published in January 2023, which noted...
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Strong Roots

By Christie Chapman
May 2, 2023
J. Adam Oglesbee did not imagine, while “growing up poor and Choctaw in southeastern Oklahoma,” that he would one day be the award-winning f...
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The Glass Netting: Women in Construction

By Rachel E. Pelovitz
March 27, 2023
Construction firms are being hit the hardest by the talent shortage: 93% reported having open positions and 91% of firms were struggling to ...
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'Professional Success Is Really About People'

By Rachel E. Pelovitz
March 5, 2023
Although women represent a small percentage of the construction workforce (hovering between 9% and 11%), they can have an outsized impact on...
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A Women's Institution

By Jessica Packard
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With an industry-wide labor shortage and an economy resurging after a global pandemic, the construction industry is scrambling to staff jobs...
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In Her Boots

By Rachel E. Pelovitz
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This time last year, Associated Builders and Contractors predicted that the construction industry would need to attract nearly 650,000 addit...
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What Contractors Need to Know About ESG

By Brian Gallagher
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The environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement may have started among institutional investors and their financial partners, but it ...
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How to Promote Better Diversity in Construction Cover Art

How to Promote Better Diversity in Construction

By Ross Crayton
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Diversity is very important in all industries, but some seem to have made bigger strides forward than others. The construction industry is o...
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Case Study: Three Tips for Training and Retaining a New Generation of Craft Workers

By Aaron Calhoon
November 28, 2022
We have all seen the stats: The industry needs hundreds of thousands more craft workers to meet demand in the next year alone. Currently, mo...
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