The Broad Sustainable Buildings division of the BROAD Group, a Chinese building company, has just erected a 57-story skyscraper in Changsha called “Mini Sky City” in 19 days, according to the NY Daily News. “The impressive high-rise has 19 atriums, office space for 4,000 people and 800 apartments....
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For the seventh year in a row, Alabama Power has teamed up with Go Build Alabama to organize camps for high school girls to introduce them to careers in construction and the skilled trades. The Girls CAN Construction Camps team industry professionals with girls who have just completed 9th,...
As we’ve been telling you on Construction Citizen, the ABC Houston Industrial Committee is hard at work figuring out the absolute best way forward for construction training. The committee has come up with recommendations for the full ABC Houston Board and we’d like to share some of them with you....
A huge challenge in matching qualified candidates with jobs as craft professionals revolves around misconceptions about exactly what’s required of someone seeking such a career. People will say things to themselves like “well, I don’t have any experience” or “I have a felony on my record” and so...
Driving down the interstate from Houston to San Antonio recently, I passed a semi–trailer truck carrying a blade for a wind turbine. This isn’t your grandfather’s windmill out in West Texas, it is a blade for one of the new wind turbines being erected to generate power, usually on a wind farm as...
When you see a person working in a skilled trade, do you ever wonder how that person came to choose that particular career or how he or she got started? I recently had the opportunity to interview Josh Reynolds, a young electrician for ISC, an industrial electrical, instrumentation, and...
There’s a renewed push at the Texas Capitol to prevent people from skirting their responsibility to make child support payments through misclassification. Worker misclassification, also known as "payroll fraud," causes all kinds of problems throughout the construction industry and our society....
The following article originally appeared in the November newsletter to clients of Kiley Advisors, LLC. Reprinted with permission.Recently, I participated in a panel discussion for the Houston AGC Construction Leadership Council (CLC), the future stars of our industry. The three...
Editor’s note: This is the third in Kollaer’s four-part series about the Wilshire Grand Center.What goes into the structural design of the skyscrapers being built around the world today? A better question might be, “Who designs the structure of those skyscrapers to withstand the heat, winds,...
