The Piedmont at River Oaks is a four-story luxury apartment complex comprised of 80 residential units and a parking garage. Located in Montrose, also known as “The Heart of Houston”, the residents are minutes from restaurants, parks, museums, retail and running trails. Built in 2006, time and...
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The Home Depot Foundation announced that it was making a commitment of $50 million to the expansion of its training programs and to training 20,000 skilled craft workers over the next 10 years.This new commitment comes on the heels of their “pilot trades training program” for separating military...
Construction Career Collaborative (C3) offers the construction workforce development professional certificate course developed by National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER). The course, focused on preparing individuals to run the...
The following article originally appeared in the January newsletter to clients of FMI Corporation. Reprinted with permission.The war for talent continues and exacerbates. Many industries seek the logical, orderly minds that are the hallmark of our industry’s best project managers and...
According to Meredith Watassek, Director of Career and Technical Education at Fort Bend Independent School District, “A sustainable workforce starts by educating the middle and high school student and their parents and counselors to the viable career options in construction and other career and...
In the construction industry, there are many terms that attorneys have written into modern-day contracts to confuse contractors with legalese and intimidate them into agreeing to terms they do not fully understand. Learning these terms is essential to the survival and success of construction...
The name Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is well known as one of the top three US auto producers. Google started a spin off company WAYMO several years ago to develop the programs and software that will enable cars to go driverless - SOON.Waymo is developing and testing a fleet of about 600...
Estimating job costs is becoming increasingly difficult for construction contracts. Competitive bidding practices, rising labor and material costs, delays in obtaining permits, trade agreement restrictions with other countries, changes in government regulations, and the shortage of qualified...
In Construction Career Collaborative (C3)’s endeavors to create a safe, skilled and sustainable craft workforce, we encounter outstanding workforce programs that frequently fly under the radar of construction employers. One of those is United Way of Greater Houston’s THRIVE, which administers a...
