As the construction industry continues to battle ongoing labor shortages, international electrical distributor, Wesco, is doing its part to spark interest in the trades—and putting its money where its mouth is with the launch of a new electrical trades scholarship program.
Net Gains: Southwest Industrial Electric’s Charity Basketball Tournament
Southwest Industrial Electric is no stranger to the community-service game, but its latest play—a charity basketball tournament—delivers a different kind of bank shot: a big fat check delivered to the winner’s organization of choice.
Angels Among Us
In the wake of the recent bridge collapse in Baltimore, Construction Angels did what it was founded to do: stepped up to serve the families devastated by the loss of six road-crew workers.
How One Manufacturing Company Is Helping First Responders This Memorial Day
Connecticut-based Packaging and Crating Technologies is raising money for the Tunnels to Towers Foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes for Gold Star and fallen first-responder families.
Rapid Relief: Atlanta’s First-Ever Multifamily Shipping-Container Development
With 40 units constructed from 20 shipping containers that previously served as temporary hospital space during the pandemic, The Melody is a fast-moving model for reducing homelessness.
Tool Time: DEWALT’s Grow the Trades Grant Program
DEWALT is helping develop the incoming construction workforce through its Grow the Trades grant program—which recently made a generous donation of tools to the ABC of Indiana/Kentucky Prep Academy.
Structural Integrity: Patching Up Group Homes and Transforming Lives
Building New Foundations has evolved from patching up group homes for disadvantaged youth to helping transform the lives of the people living there.
Building Sophia’s Dream House
A young girl can’t play in the sun—so Consolidated Construction built her a playhouse. Thanks to their work, today she has it made in the shade.








