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?
Input prices for new nonresidential construction rose 0.1% in February and 3.1% year over year (y/y), according to producer price index (PPI) data the Bureau of Labor Statistics (...
The construction industry had 231,000 job openings on the last day of January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
The Middle East war is already affecting construction costs, with the impacts likely to increase sharply the longer the war continues. The national average price of on-highway...
Originally published in the NCCER Newsroom:The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) and EnGen have announced a new partnership that helps...
Authored by Diane Augilar with Construction Career Collaborative (C3)Somewhere between a construction networking event and a youth awards dinner, my job suddenly made perfect...
Construction employment in February totaled 8,309,000, seasonally adjusted, a decrease of 11,000 from January but an increase of 42,000 (0.5%) year-over-year (y/y), according to...
National nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.6% in December, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census...
Input prices for new nonresidential construction rose 0.7% in January and 2.9% year over year (y/y), according to producer price index (PPI) data the Bureau of Labor Statistics (...
Originally published in the NCCER Newsroom:Providing construction craft training to workers can increase productivity and work quality, accelerate career...