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Vision Kwest: Presenting ABC’s 2024 Contractor of the Year

by Christopher Durso | Mar 15, 2024
Cover Story | Culture | Features | Organization Culture

Kwest Group was just supposed to be a regional player in northwestern Ohio. Twenty years, 350 full-time employees and $130 million in annual business later, the nationally known heavy contractor is ABC’s 2024 Contractor of the Year.

Generation Yes: Recruiting Today’s Construction Management Students

Today’s construction-management students are ready and eager to join the workforce. What can companies do to attract the best and brightest? Get to them early, create a close-knit culture, offer flexibility and travel— and don’t discount their affinity for technology.

2024 and the Multiverse of Markets

by Anirban Basu, Mike Sobolewski | Nov 30, 2023
Cover Story | Features | Markets | Public

Sometimes, the economy is too big for one analyst to figure out, so for Construction Executive’s 2024 Construction Economic Forecast, we’ve asked four of them to do it.

Here Comes the [Building Sector] Boom

by David McMillin | Nov 1, 2023
Cover Story | Economy | Features | Markets

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, select nonresidential sectors are on fire. Construction leaders share why manufacturing, health care, data centers and multifamily housing are such good bets right now—and how long they might remain so.

What Do You Want From Your Contech?

Construction-technology solutions have never been more plentiful, varied, robust—or overwhelming. Before you start picking out the products and platforms you think you need, take the time to determine what you actually need. Then make sure all your stakeholders are part of your implementation plan.

General Contractor: An Interview With the Head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon has been a military engineer for 37 years—the last three serving as commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In an exclusive interview with CE, he discusses when he decided on his career path, how the Corps’ crushing workload is its greatest challenge and biggest opportunity—and why he’s ‘definitely a soldier first.’

Filling the Boomer Gap

Construction companies were already struggling with a massive talent shortage—but now its effects are being multiplied by the large-scale retirement of baby boomers, who are taking incalculable skills and experience with them. Replacing them will require finding new ways of telling the full story of what it means to be a craft professional.

Safe and Safer

by Grace Austin | May 1, 2023
Cover Story | Features | Safety | Total Human Health

When it comes to health and safety, doing things better means preventing injuries and saving lives. With that in mind, here are five things about construction safety that industry advocates tell CE need to change—immediately, if not sooner.

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Here Comes the [Building Sector] Boom

What Do You Want From Your Contech?

General Contractor: An Interview With the Head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filling the Boomer Gap

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