Yesterday the Greater Houston Partnership hosted a reception in their newly-built convening space located in the heart of downtown to allow media including myself an opportunity to view their gorgeous venue designed to show visiting CEO’s and government dignitaries exactly how wonderful and diverse...
This Week's Second Look
The “private sector solution” to workforce challenges in the Houston area is growing by leaps and bounds, but there is an incredible amount of work yet to do. The Construction Career Collaborative, or C3, continues to pick up steam and more industry leaders are being asked to join what has been...
We have posted articles on the “twisted towers” that demonstrate the outstanding engineering and construction capabilities of today. Now the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat or CBTUH has compiled a database of some really twisted tall buildings with detailed statistics for each of them...
Excitement filled the air on a cool, crisp, picture perfect day when 322 students with 38 teacher/administrator chaperones from Houston-Metropolitan Area high school campuses attended the 2016 Construction Careers Exposition on Thursday, October 27, at the Pasadena Municipal Fairgrounds. ...
Earlier this month, I visited Lone Star College North Harris (LSC-North Harris) and spoke with Michael Burns, Dean of Career and Applied Technology Division, and Brian Sanders, Director of Applied Technology about the Construction and Skilled Trades Technology Center which is currently being...
A fairly new group proposing tighter constraints on organized labor in Texas is starting a fresh push to pass legislation that would make life even tougher for unions in this right to work state.Some business leaders are frustrated after a bill aimed at further reining in unions was unsuccessful at...
The MahaNakhon Tower, Bangkok’s newest and tallest, is a building that my “LEGO-loving” grandson would be proud of.The difference is that this is a real building in the heart of one of the busiest cities in Asia. Designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, an international architecture firm with offices in Hong...
The following article originally appeared in the September newsletter to clients of Kiley Advisors, LLC. Reprinted with permission.Recently, I was in a conversation about golf with Joe Mathis, leader of The Mathis Group – highly respected project managers and owners’ representatives. He said...
An agreement between the United States Department of Labor (DOL) and North Carolina’s Industrial Commission was signed last week in an effort to coordinate resources to crack down on worker misclassification in the state. An article in the News and Observer, a regional publication serving the...
