According to press releases from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in recent weeks, two separate contractors have each been convicted of issuing...
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.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal last week, “The Labor Department is investigating pay practices at many of the top companies in home building, hitting them with...
According to a recent headline in Bloomberg, Stagnant August Hiring in U.S. May Signal Renewed Recession, the numbers don’t look promising.The article quotes James Hamilton, an...
As part of the upcoming jobs push by the Administration there is one item of particular interest to those of us in the industry: the renewal of the Federal Highway Act that is set...
It has been a rough three or four years for the commercial construction business and with the drought that has plagued the industry for those years, cracks are beginning to show...
Shell Oil, has for the last few decades, brought the best and brightest thinkers and futurists together to create scenarios for what the emerging futures might be for the next 50...
The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) issued a press release yesterday claiming that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is overstepping and favoring the unions. The...
The construction industry has begun to place an even greater focus on safety on the jobsite. According to the latest National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2010...
Last week, we attended a dinner of the Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center at which a vote was taken on the worst case of wage theft and worker abuse on the cases where...
