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For most of the last decade, owners could treat craft labor availability as their contractor’s problem. You prequalified on safety, bonding, financial strength, and relevant experience, and you assumed a qualified firm would find the people. That assumption is weaker than it used to be, and the contractor market is reorganizing itself in response. The …
While the industry has long been focused on how to get people into construction, the conversation needs to shift to how we get them to stay and grow. That question is especially pressing in today’s tight and competitive labor market. Recruiting and retention are too often treated as separate strategies when they are instead deeply …
The construction landscape is experiencing an unprecedented shift in capital allocation. Driven by the rapid expansion of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global digital infrastructure, data center construction has grown from a niche into a major driver of commercial construction. Industry giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Meta are leading this charge, pouring …