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On April 4, United Tool and Fastener had the privilege of sponsoring and presenting at the 1st annual C3 Career Fair in the Fort Bend Independent School District Wheeler Field...
Reshaping the Construction Industry
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Nonfarm payroll employment in March increased by 196,000, seasonally adjusted, from February and by 2,499,000 (1.7%) year-over-year (y/y) from March 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.
April 08, 2019
Recently, a friend retired. He told me in the last year of his work that he had been, “Cut out of the herd” at work.For a minute I was taken aback by that statement but the more I...
April 05, 2019
The filmmakers behind The Rational Middle documentary series on immigration took their show on the road in Austin this past week with a screening of two of their...
April 04, 2019
Associated Builders and Contractors announced this week that Clemon Prevost, a senior talent development specialist for Fluor’s U.S. Gulf Coast Craft Training Center in Pasadena, Texas, was named the 2019 Craft Instructor of the Year.
April 03, 2019
Construction spending totaled $1.320 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in February, up 1.0% from the upwardly revised January estimate and up just 1.1% year-over-year (y/y) from February 2018, the Census Bureau reported today. Public construction spending jumped 3.6% for the month and 11% y/y.
April 03, 2019
“Our most precious resource is people,” says Mike Holland, COO of MAREK, recently named Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2018 Contractor of the Year in recognition of its history as an innovator, career builder and champion of the construction workforce.
April 02, 2019
The employee retention rate among workers in a company with a robust culture of training is much higher than in those companies without such a culture, and absenteeism is markedly lower. The projects produced by these companies also have much lower maintenance costs over the long term.
April 01, 2019
According to the recent AGC survey, 80% of construction companies are still experiencing difficulty finding qualified workers for their job crews. One specialty contractor was...
March 29, 2019
LONG BEACH, California, March 28—Associated Builders and Contractors named MAREK, headquartered in Houston, as its 2018 Contractor of the Year, an award that recognizes companies...
March 28, 2019
