After Debbie Sterling graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design, she recognized two things:only about 11% of engineers are women, andnot all little girls want to play with dolls and kitchen sets.She decided to create a line of construction toys...
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In what will hopefully be the first in a series of events like it across Texas, business leaders and educators from the Houston area gathered to talk about the best ways they can work together to put kids on track for the skilled trades if that’s what those students want to do. The Building...
Originally posted by Mike Holland on MarekBros.com.On Thursday, November 21st, of this year I, along with 50 other executives, “slept out” on the grounds of the Covenant House, a homeless shelter for kids, to help raise awareness and much needed funds. For me, it was the second time to participate...
According to an article in the International Business Times this week, students from the Red Clay School District in Delaware set a new Guinness World Record for the tallest tower ever built of Lego blocks. The tower was built in sections by each of the 28 schools in the district, and...
On a weather-perfect, sunny fall day just north of Houston last month, 280 golfers participated in a charity tournament, luncheon, and silent auction benefitting the Good Shepherd Residential Treatment Center through the recently created Building New Foundations nonprofit volunteer organization....
Now that the City of Houston is moving forward with a policy to crack down on employers that steal the wages of workers, the pressure will be on to make it work. It'll be no small task because, as you well know, those that engage in these crimes against hard-working Texans are pretty slippery...
This article was originally published in the November/December issue of Construction Savvy. Reprinted with permission.My first construction boss told me everything he thought I needed to know about jobsite security. He said, “If it is not nailed down, someone will steal it.”That advice holds...
Last month Jim Kollaer shared a link to a blog on the website Life of an Architect by Bob Borson in which all the things that a drywall contractor carries in his bucket were laid out and identified. The Borson article is part of an interesting series which shows the things people in various...
To some in construction, avoiding payroll taxes by paying workers as independent subcontractors is just the way to do business. But, as we've repeatedly noted, it is illegal to do that when the person you're paying meets the government's definition of an employee. The intentional...
