The political protests and related violence over the past few weeks in Egypt have not surprisingly impeded progress on construction projects in that country. Many...
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.
Lawrence Rebman, director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, spelled it out very clearly in his recent Director’s Spotlight entitled Worker...
We received a link to a Yahoo Finance article from a fan of Construction Citizen. The article is entitled: Coalition of 'Unlikely Bed Fellows' Continues Growing to Nail...
In a January 19th Houston Chronicle article entitled, Working: A plea for fair play, L.M. Sixel discusses how due to the economy, many construction companies are resorting to...
Is the Economy impacting your training and development budget? In a recent survey conducted by Metri-Mark, Inc., 55% of training managers responded that due to the recent...
In our current economic situation, when money is tight, most subcontractors face the same dilemma. The owners are demanding the least expensive project cost all the while...
This letter is from the first newsletter that we received going into the new year and it is important. It describes one company’s workforce development program that meets...
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is considering interagency collaboration to step up enforcement of worker misclassification violations in Texas, a point they discussed in a...
Cyndi Mergele, Senior Manager at Padgett, Stratemann & Co., L.L.P. in San Antonio, wrote an interesting article for the Construction News, a newspaper focusing on the...
