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Labor & Workforce Development
What Workforce Challenges Are Ahead for Key Construction Industry Segments?
Where there is construction growth, there will be significant difficulties in meeting the demand for workers. Here is a look at what's ahead in 2021.
COVID-19
Barely More Than Half of Construction Workers Will Take the COVID-19 Vaccine
Digging Deeper
How Equipment Can Fill Construction’s Labor Shortage
Profit Matters
5 Tips for Onboarding New Employees
Rental
Virtual Reality: A ‘Just-In-Time' Technology for a COVID World
COVID-19
Biden Will Ask OSHA to Reconsider Emergency COVID-19 Standards
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Construction Update
This Week's 10 Hottest Construction Stories: New Rules Open PPP Payoff to the Smallest Businesses
Why the most-read construction stories include how to troubleshoot concrete cracks, 9-day continuous concrete pour slipforming grain silos, where surface transportation funding stands, six factors when adding drones to your construction business
Construction News Tracker
Construction News Tracker: Arctic Blast from Texas to Maine Drives Fuel Prices Skyward
All construction material prices increased during January for the first time since 2018, NAHB measured a 14.5% increase in new home construction permits in 2020, PCA forecasts 2021 regional cement consumption to be led by a 3% increase in the South
Infrastructure
Economists Predict Rocky Road to Recovery for Construction Industry
Dodge Data & Analytics forecasts that the U.S. infrastructure segment won't return to normal levels until 2023.
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Events
AEMP CONNECT 2021 Management Conference and Annual Meeting
March 10, 2021
March 10, 2021
For the 40th Management Conference and Annual Meeting (CONNECT 2021), AEMP will be delivering a refreshed virtual experience that allows the essence of the annual conference to continue.
Digging Deeper
Skanska’s Johana Godoy Highlights Career Opportunities for Women in Construction
Skanska USA's Johana Godoy shares her experiences and career growth in the field of construction, as well as opportunities for other women seeking a promising and rewarding career path.
Labor & Workforce Development
AEMP's IGNITE Learning Lab for CEM and CESP Exam Prep Goes Online
The IGNITE Learning Lab is designed to help those planning to take the CEM and CESP exam develop knowledge of pertinent content, sort out what's covered, identify content areas of focus and increase their expertise in equipment management.
Labor & Workforce Development
Do You Have the Right Employees in the Right Roles?
The owner, as head coach, has to strive to fill each position with the best players available who have the required experience, talent, attitude, and ability to win.
Business Services
How to Get Your Construction Workers Excited for Work
Taking a time out once a year is a great time to refresh tired minds and bodies
Labor & Workforce Development
Digital Job Boards Target Construction Workforce Labor Shortage
Digital job platforms geared specifically to the construction workforce tackle the labor shortage by connecting workers and employers.
Business Services
How to Get Your Construction Workers Excited for Work
Taking a time out once a year is a great time to refresh tired minds and bodies
Labor & Workforce Development
Digital Job Boards Target Construction Workforce Labor Shortage
Digital job platforms geared specifically to the construction workforce tackle the labor shortage by connecting workers and employers.
Labor & Workforce Development
TraLaMa Launches to Connect Trade Laborers with Employment
America's Floor Source's CEO Jason Goldberg, introduces a trade labor marketplace and online community where businesses can find skilled trade labor, and where trade laborers can find long-term employment or short-term work.
Training & Education
Serious Labs Partners with GPRC to Provide Student Training Solutions
Serious Labs and Grande Prairie Regional College have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring innovative training solutions to students — implementing current VR training and collaborating on new solutions.
Profit Matters
The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast: Healthy Habits That Keep Everyone Working
Construction sites are getting safer, but contractors need to keep personal health and safety at the forefront as well on the jobsites and in their companies.
Labor & Workforce Development
How Much Should a Concrete Finisher Make?
Concrete finishers earn an average of $30,000 - $70,000 per year. How much should you be making?
Labor & Workforce Development
Trinseo Welcomes Joseph Clark as Technical Sales Representative to CASE Team
Trinseo expands its Expands Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, and Elastomers business with recent appointment
Pavement Maintenance
Finding Workers…In Surprising Places
Broadening the places where you look for workers can yield big benefits.
Profit Matters
The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast: How to Find and Recruit Good Employees
Traditional recruiting methods don't work as well today, so contractors need to start thinking outside the box.
Profit Matters
The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast: Take Time for Training
Despite a solid effort across the industry, construction contractors should be investing more time and money in training both new and veteran construction employees.
Home
Blue Collar Job Growth Remains Sluggish in September with Only Modest Uptick
Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging rose by 93,000 jobs in September, or just 0.47%.
Labor & Workforce Development
AEDF Extends Scholarship Deadline for Students Seeking Heavy Equipment Careers
Students can earn $2,000 towards their education to help them get started in the heavy equipment industry.
Labor & Workforce Development
Serious Labs Takes Heavy Equipment Operator Simulator Training International
Company announces first internationally accredited heavy equipment operator training via simulator.
Groundbreakers
Gamers Help Rosendin Accelerate Advances in BIM Application
What role could this tech savvy generation of workers have in shaping the future of the construction industry?
Labor & Workforce Development
Prevailing-Wage Repeal Slashed WI Wages, Exported Jobs and Taxes, Cut No Costs
Nonpartisan, non-profit research finds no state that has repealed prevailing wage has received the benefits claimed by politicians, but they have damaged their own construction industries
Concrete
CM Labs Concrete Pump Simulator Endorsed by American Concrete Pumping Association
Concrete Pump simulator allows operators to develop basic skills such deploying outriggers, creating concrete slabs, and pouring footings and foundations.
Home
Construction Continues to Recover Jobs Since the Start of the Pandemic
With 26,000 jobs added in September, the construction industry has recovered approximately 64% of the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic.
Apps
App Creates Construction Community and Seeks to Solve Labor Shortage
The Trade Hounds app connects construction workers with both peers and employers with the goal of removing inefficiencies in the labor market.
Construction News
Black Construction Workers File Suit Alleging Employers Do Not Stop Racial Abuse
Four elevator mechanics say they were subject to racist slurs from supervisors, nooses and racist graffiti in their workspaces
Groundbreakers
Suffolk Technology Partners with Trade Hounds on Construction Workforce Platform
Suffolk collaborated with Trade Hounds to develop a new feature to address workforce shortages.
Construction Safety
The Deadly Risk of Social Stigma and Shame Around Emotional and Mental Health
In a male-driven industry like construction, embarrassment or shame can prevent sufferers from talking about mental health issues and getting the help they need before adding to the industry's disproportionate suicide rate
Labor & Workforce Development
New Online Construction Labor Marketplace Launches
Core is a construction labor marketplace that matches construction/trade workers with general contractors, subcontractors, and companies.
Labor & Workforce Development
We Need to Talk About Suicide in the Construction Industry
An often-overlooked part of workplace safety is mental health; and as the leading occupation for death by suicide, it is time to take psychological safety in the construction industry seriously.
Labor & Workforce Development
EEOC Sues Contractor CCC Group for Racial Harassment
Black employees at construction company’s Ravena, NY, worksite were persistently subjected to racist insults and a noose, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges
