Professional Development

Contractors’ profits are often thin. Avoiding activity lags, using local suppliers, avoiding scope creep, and using tech can help contractors boost profits.

Want to teach your child about construction? Pete The Cat: Construction Destruction and Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site are two books to start with.

Incentivizing work, advertising location benefits, and offering more work hours are ways to attract workers to infrastructure projects in remote locations.

Construction companies complain about poor worker retention while wages stagnate or decrease. Higher pay and more opportunity will solve this problem.

COVID-19 impacts on the supply chain brought volatile materials costs not easily absorbed by contractors or owners. Price escalation clauses can protect both.

Ill-fitting PPE, workplace bias, workplace culture, and harassment are some of the biggest challenges women face when entering the construction industry.

A career in the trades offers flexibility, variability, and learning opportunities—but it’s also a high-stress environment with long work hours.

Nonpayment, failure to meet contractual terms, and workplace injuries are some of the most common reasons for construction litigation.

Apprenticeships are a form of post-secondary education that combines on-the-job training and in-class learning in the trade of your choice.