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Effective construction safety means looking beyond the job site—prioritizing worker engagement, mental health, skills development, and technology to strengthen the workforce. Construction ...

Southwest Florida faces a critical shortage of skilled construction workers as the current workforce ages and few young people enter the trades. High school construction education programs, like ...

The Union Construction Academy is one of a growing suite of construction workforce development programs looking to address workforce shortages. PHOTO / COURTESY OF MAINE AFL-CIO Kloey Arsenault was 18 ...

That’s according to a survey by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGCA) and the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), which also found that 92 percent of ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The construction labor force has long been a concern, but ...

One of the purposes of Construction Inclusion Week is to pause, reflect, and commit to ensuring that construction sites and offices are places where every person feels valued, respected and empowered ...

As the school year gets underway, high school juniors and seniors are weighing their next steps after graduation. Some may already have a clear direction, but many are staring down a future clouded by ...

Twenty-five years ago, the construction industry was completing takeoffs on paper, filing cabinets filled job trailers, and cell phones were just being introduced. Today, jobsites are run from tablets ...

1. How are Maine’s community colleges contributing to Maine’s construction workforce? Our job is to get skilled workers into the marketplace as soon as possible. We do that with a mix of short-term ...

A local industry worker has transformed career and technical education programming in the Weld RE-5J School District. His involvement with the Roosevelt High School’s construction program and ...