Construction Executive

09/03/2026

📊 Construction is facing a workforce shortage. Multiskilling may be one of the most practical solutions the industry has.

New ABC National-funded research—drawing on nationwide jobsite observations from the University of Kansas, UNC Charlotte, Arizona State University and the Simplar Foundation—finds that qualified multiskilled crews can reduce waiting, improve workflow and stretch scarce workforce capacity while creating new opportunities for workers.

Joel Dutton at Evans General Contractors and Kaden Darbonne at Triad Electric and Controls (a subsidiary of The Newtron Group) give firsthand accounts of how developing skills beyond a primary trade keeps workers essential as project needs shift.

🗣️ "If you're only subjected to one thing, then they may not need you. But if you know how to do everything, they can keep you to the end of the project and you're more essential to the company," says Darbonne.

🔗 Read more about what the research found and how multiskilling is changing what it means to build a career in construction in our article: https://f.mtr.cool/mwvx6ji3ti

A nationwide research initiative provides new field evidence that qualified multiskilled construction crews can reduce waiting, improve workflow and stretch scarce workforce capacity—while creating new opportunities for workers.

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

⚖️ Inflation. AI liability. Federal policy shifts. What should contractors actually be preparing for right now?

CE asked attorneys from its 2026 Top 50 Construction Law Firms—Josh Levy at Husch Blackwell, Gary Stein at Peckar & Abramson, P.C. and Keeley McCarty at Fox Rothschild LLP—to share insight into construction's biggest legal challenges and how contractors can successfully navigate them.

🔗 Read what they had to say about cost pressure, AI liability, data centers and more in our article: https://f.mtr.cool/cjzsrlwvcy

Construction’s biggest legal challenges have changed. Here’s what top attorneys from some of CE's Top 50 Construction Law Firms say contractors should prepare for next, from cost volatility to AI innovation and beyond.

09/02/2026

🏗️ What does it take to save one of America's most iconic aviation structures?

For nearly 90 years, Hangar One has defined Silicon Valley's skyline at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center at Moffett Federal Airfield. Now, thanks to an ambitious design-build rehabilitation by McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. and Planetary Ventures, in partnership with HDR and KPFF Consulting Engineers, it's ready for a new era.

🔗 Learn more about the historic rehabilitation project in our article: https://f.mtr.cool/80sfsb8g7o

08/27/2026

💻 Nearly half of construction workers are already using AI. The question isn't whether to adopt it. It's how to do it without leaving your workforce behind.

ADP Research's Today at Work found that 20% of workers in construction and related trades use AI daily, with another 29% using it weekly. The companies that will lead aren't the ones who adopted generative AI first. They're the ones who managed the shift thoughtfully.

🔗 Learn how contractors can take a more thoughtful, workforce-focused approach to AI, with insight from Kit Dickinson, industry executive at ADP, in our article: https://f.mtr.cool/jl6wyfih7y

Contractors that take a thoughtful, workforce-focused approach to AI will be better positioned to handle ongoing industry challenges.

08/27/2026

🔧 Milwaukee PIPELINE 2026 is not your typical trade show.

This year's theme: disruptive innovation. CE joined attendees for a behind-the-scenes look at Milwaukee Tool's headquarters, creative and engineering processes and hands-on testing of still-embargoed products—with feedback going straight back to the team for immediate redesign.

🗣️ "We don't launch a product if we don't fully believe in it. Yet there is no such thing as perfection—which is why PIPELINE is just as valuable to the company as it is to the attendees," says Bradley Herzog, product manager at Milwaukee Tool's outdoor power division.

🔗 See more from our experience at Milwaukee PIPELINE 2026 in our article: https://f.mtr.cool/kg4jspxejb

08/26/2026

📊 Merit shop apprenticeship program enrollment is growing faster than unions, with enrollment up 60%.

Over the past five years, nonunion apprenticeship programs and participants were responsible for the vast majority of growth in construction registered apprenticeship programs, or RAPs.

🗣️ "The DOL data show that ABC and merit shop contractors are leading the industry in growing both registered apprenticeship programs and innovative new workforce development pipelines," says Kristen Swearingen, ABC National vice president of government affairs.

🔗 See more details: https://f.mtr.cool/u2hj1ubb6k

“The DOL data show that ABC and merit shop contractors are leading the industry in growing both registered apprenticeship programs and innovative new workforce development pipelines.”

08/26/2026

🏗️ BELL Construction is changing what it looks like to be a woman in construction—and showing exactly what it takes to build a company where women want to stay and grow.

When it comes to recruitment, BELL shares perspectives from women already in the field, builds confidence in female employees to step into new roles and fosters a culture that supports and protects them. The result is a workforce that doesn't just recruit women. It invests in them.

🗣️ "They invest in their people and everybody has skin in the game, which makes it equitable. If you're willing to put in the hard work, BELL will invest in you as well," says Melissa Higginbotham, senior recruiter at BELL.

🔗 Learn how BELL Construction is setting the standard for attracting women into the construction workforce in our interview with Higginbotham and Alexzondra Fleetwood, BELL's director of human resources: https://f.mtr.cool/a2pl4xaoox

08/25/2026

🎉 Swinerton is doubling down on supporting growth in Southern California's education and healthcare construction sectors—starting with two key promotions.

David Cramp has been promoted to vice president, division manager, K-14 Education–Southern California and Brian Holley to vice president, division manager, Healthcare–Southern California.

Congratulations to Cramp and Holley on their new roles!

🔗 See more hiring and promotion updates shaping the construction industry here: https://f.mtr.cool/pe4st8j70y

08/25/2026

🏗️ The most complex construction projects in America aren't being built by one company. They're being built by the best ones, together.

As demands on general contractors grow, joint venture models are giving firms like Skanska USA a flexible, scalable way to pursue and deliver the most demanding projects in the country.

🔗 Learn more with insight from Kimberly Burke, senior vice president of business development at Skanska, in our article: https://f.mtr.cool/trlycj3uas

The demands placed on a single general contractor to deliver monumental projects have led companies to adopt a collaboration-based delivery model.