Resilience by Design: Leadership Strategies for Mental Health Protection in Construction Teams
- HEALTH, Leadership, Outlook & Trends
- October 2, 2025

George Nash, Maxim Consulting Group In 2023, there were 982 work-related fatalities in the construction industry. During that same period, an estimated 5,095 construction professionals died by suicide. While our industry has made tremendous progress in improving physical safety, these numbers make one thing clear: protecting our people requires more than hard hats, PPE, and
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By Valerie Jimenez, Bold Entity When I ask subcontractors how they win work, most of them say it’s because, “we build relationships,” or “we do good work,” or “our clients know they can count on us.” And I believe them! Because relationships matter. Reliability matters. Quality matters. But here’s the problem: when almost every subcontractor
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Preparing your organization for the inevitable “hiccup” or roadblock By Gregg M. Schoppman, FMI Corp Reflecting on the worldwide cyber outage in mid-2025 has been an eye-opening experience. This is certainly not about technology or redundancy, but there are certainly nuggets that could be gathered in that bucket. This is about how the firm prepares
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By Sonya Bohmann, Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention When the first week of March comes up each year, any woman who works adjacent to the industry or adjacent to the field in this industry questions, “Am I a woman in construction?” Construction has always been an industry defined by grit, precision, and resilience. But
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