Not a New Idea, but A New Trend – Employee Stock Ownership Plans
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- February 27, 2024
By Patricia Cuomo, Fonn, Inc. Construction as a Growth Engine Despite a prolonged economic downturn marked by redundancies, instability and the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry has been one of the main engines of growth in recent years. Globally, the construction market is expected to grow by approximately 70% by 20251. However, not unlike the
READ MOREAn evaluation of REAL project planning that is more than checking boxes By Gregg M. Schoppman, FMI All organizations are busy. Most likely the understatement of the last decade but a true definition epitomizes the state of the industry. Even in the deepest recessionary market, rarely are construction firms sitting idly with little to do.
READ MOREBy Jack Rubinger, writer People — caring, feeding, nourishing and retaining — are the big story for the construction industry as we head into 2022. While other industries have done a great job keeping people happy, healthy and in good humor, the construction industry has lagged behind in these skills. Driven by deadlines, increased pressure
READ MOREJohn Biggs, writer The wave of new construction technologies has been dramatically transforming the industry. On today’s construction sites, robots conduct building inspections, drones buzz overhead capturing a project’s progress, and every drawing and plan is accessible to workers in real-time through the cloud and mobile devices. Still, despite construction’s significant digital transformation, it seems
READ MOREBy Nicole Needles, NCCER The construction profession has been a generational and long-standing career path for many families. Others have found success working their way up from apprentice to journey-level to owning their own company. Using creativity, employing critical thinking skills and working with their hands to make something tangible leaves craft professionals feeling accomplished
READ MOREBy Bob Tuman, CCR Consulting In my almost 40 years as a construction safety consultant, I worked with hundreds of contractors and performed several thousand workers’ compensation Loss Control Surveys. In completing the insurers’ Survey Report, I compared the newly insured’s ACORD and Supplemental Applications’ answers with my Survey findings, identifying and citing discrepancies. Surprisingly,
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