Worker shortages, material prices impacting residential construction
Homebuilders say filling positions is currently among their top concerns, ranking third behind high lumber prices and regulatory burdens.
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Why producers can expect a return to normalcy in 2021
Businesses can look forward to an increasingly favorable operating environment this year as the economy gradually rebounds from the effects of the pandemic.
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Report: 82 percent of contractors have ‘moderate to high’ confidence in U.S. market
Eighty-two percent of commercial construction contractors have moderate to high confidence that the U.S. market will provide sufficient business opportunities in the next 12 months, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Work shortage solutions
As both a millennial and a third-generation employee of his family company, Wm. D. Scepaniak’s John Scepaniak has a unique perspective balanced between old school and new school approaches.
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Ohio Cat sets example to successfully promote the industry
A special event in downtown Cleveland this month provided parents and kids an opportunity to get up close with equipment from Caterpillar.
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Ohio program to provide welcome workforce solution
MACC Tech, a groundbreaking program on the horizon in the Buckeye State, aims to prepare the next generation of industry employees.
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Solving the industry’s people problem
2019 Pit & Quarry Roundtable & Conference attendees discussed the many labor challenges they’re encountering these days, as well as solutions to solidify the industry’s workforce.
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Embracing diversity key to Vulcan Materials’ growth
Vulcan Materials is now a part of an organization called CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, which strives to increase diverse representation of women and people of color throughout companies.
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