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Reshaping the Industry

Three actions are necessary to build a thriving, profitable and durable construction industry:

  • Acceptance.  Recognize current situations and challenges and accept they are real.
  • Leadership.  Embrace core values and principles as innovators and leaders.
  • Solutions.  Collaborate among owners, contractors and workforce for solutions.
What challenges is the construction industry facing?  What principles, like sustainable value and social responsibility, should industry leaders embrace?  Where will the solutions come from?
A shortage of skilled labor along the Gulf Coast inspired global engineering construction company Fluor to open a craft training facility near Houston, where students are trained...
The following article originally appeared in the May newsletter to clients of Kiley Advisors, LLC.  Reprinted with permission.“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”That...
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I recently wrote about the technologies that are disrupters and in the early stages of development. One of the first that we will see in the construction industry is 3D printing....
The following article originally appeared in the May newsletter to clients of Kiley Advisors, LLC for the purpose of providing the latest leading indicators and industry issues to...
 Marek Division President John Hinson shares an inspiring message about hard work and appreciation. 
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A broad cross section of construction and construction-related business associations are asking leaders in both parties in Washington to make career training a priority this year.
Marek states that if the estimated 2.5 million undocumented immigrants in Texas were protected from deportation, they would have to start paying taxes like all other Texas...