A Sustainable Workforce Starts With You

Reshaping the Industry

Three actions are necessary to build a thriving, profitable and durable construction industry:

  • Acceptance.  Recognize current situations and challenges and accept they are real.
  • Leadership.  Embrace core values and principles as innovators and leaders.
  • Solutions.  Collaborate among owners, contractors and workforce for solutions.
What challenges is the construction industry facing?  What principles, like sustainable value and social responsibility, should industry leaders embrace?  Where will the solutions come from?
Construction employment hits six-year high; Beige Book finds mixed conditionsEditor’s note: Construction Citizen is proud to partner with AGC America to bring you AGC Chief...
Construction spending slips for month but rises year-over-year; input price cuts spreadEditor’s note: Construction Citizen is proud to partner with AGC America to bring you AGC...
State funding for college campus construction projects has been described by many around Texas as “long overdue.”  Leaders in the Texas legislature have agreed on the...
Construction PPIs drop in January; Dodge starts rebound; ABI slips; housing is mixedEditor’s note: Construction Citizen is proud to partner with AGC America to bring you AGC Chief...
The Chairman of the Board of the Associated General Contractors Austin Chapter, John Cyrier, will be sworn in soon as a State Representative in the Texas House. That’s after...
Nonres starts, materials prices show mixed trends in January, multiple sources showEditor’s note: Construction Citizen is proud to partner with AGC America to bring you AGC Chief...
The following article originally appeared in the February newsletter to clients of Kiley Advisors, LLC for the purpose of providing the latest leading indicators and industry...
One major roadblock to creating a sustainable workforce in the Texas construction industry is rampant wage theft by unethical businesses in our state. Many of them are...
Your safety-sense should be tingling about now for several reasons. I'd like to talk for a moment about the importance of taking personal responsibility for using personal...