Like many businesses, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a heavy toll on the construction industry, upending many commercial projects that have caused financial hardship for scores of companies, their employees and subcontractors this year.

 

With the coronavirus pandemic worsening drastically this summer, executives at Suffolk Construction, an AGC of New York State LLC and Rhode Island Chapter-AGC member, figure it’s only a matter of time before a worker shows up sick to one of its many jobsites across the country. But for COVID-19 to spread at one of those sites, it will have to jump through more hoops than a circus tiger.

Generation Z will be the future of construction work as baby boomers retire and a new crowd of young people enter the industry. On this episode, an 18-year old Gen Z expert Josh Miller and two AGC student chapter leaders Anna Bennett and Tyler Korte offer authentic insights on how to leverage their unique skills to improve your business. Discover how to target your construction firm’s training and recruiting strategies to better engage with the 16 to 24-year old demographic.

Thirty-nine states lost construction jobs between August 2019 and August 2020 while 31 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between July and August according to a new analysis of Labor Department data released recently by AGC of America. The new annual figures detail how the coronavirus pandemic has undermined demand for construction projects after a strong start to the year.

Earlier this year, AGC of America launched a digital advertising workforce campaign to help identify best practices for recruiting interested parties to the construction industry. This infographic provides a snapshot of the campaign results as well as tips for contractors who seek to recruit new talent.

Learn how Platform technology benefits your business by design - better preparing your organization now and into the future. Hear about the current state of the Technology in the construction industry, the core benefits of platform technology, and key insights and best practices that you can apply to your business through the lens of behavioral change, enabling your workforce to do their best work.

Tracking drawing changes, RFI submittals and responses, and the thousands of other types of design/build documents that go into a modern construction project can be an administrative nightmare. The solution isn’t always a massive, and expensive, construction management system. Sometimes, the answer is just understanding how you can use the Cloud to host and give access to all your files from one location. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone working the project could access the current version of all files at any time, from anywhere? That’s easier than you think, using cloud-based sharing and file markup tools. This presentation by ZenTek Consultants will focus on how construction firms can share construction documents, RFI/RFP, etc. in the cloud for all project stakeholders to access. We will use Bluebeam Revu as an example system to show you how simple this process can be.