The Cost-Saving Power of a Highly Trained and Skilled Workforce in Construction Projects

Leave a Comment / Workforce Development / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Workforce is key to maximizing project success When it comes to construction projects, building owners often focus on minimizing costs. While cost reduction is a valid concern, it’s important to recognize the significant impact that investing in a highly trained and skilled workforce can have on the overall project expenses. In this blog, we will …

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Enhancing Safety and Well-being: 5 Essential Components of a Commercial Construction Jobsite Accident Prevention Plan

Leave a Comment / Safety / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Prevention isn’t perfection, it is culture Creating a comprehensive accident prevention plan is crucial in ensuring the safety and well-being of craft professionals working on commercial construction jobsites. By implementing effective safety measures, construction companies can minimize risks and promote a culture of safety. Five Key Components for Accident Prevention This is not an exhaustive …

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Maximizing Value: Benchmarking Your Construction Workforce Benefit Program to Industry Standards

Leave a Comment / Industry Trends / By Angela Robbins Taylor

As a construction employer, offering a competitive benefit program is crucial for attracting and retaining skilled workers. However, with so many options available, it can be challenging to determine what benefits to offer and how to ensure they are competitive. That’s where benchmarking comes in. What is Benchmarking Benchmarking involves comparing your construction workforce benefit …

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The Power of Collaboration: 5 Benefits for Construction Owners

Leave a Comment / Construction / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Collaboration is key to success in the construction industry. In an era where projects are becoming increasingly complex, construction owners must recognize the value of collaboration and actively foster a collaborative culture. By working together with stakeholders, contractors, and designers, construction owners can unlock numerous benefits that lead to project success. In this article, we …

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Construction Safety Management: 3 Ways to Support Safety on Your Jobsite

Leave a Comment / Safety / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Safety Management Systems (SMS) was not a thing in the past. But if you look back over the last four decades in the construction industry, a lot has changed. In the 1970s, it was simpler and probably cheaper just to pay a fine than support the safety of the workforce through training, equipment, and process …

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Quality Improvement in Construction Projects: Focusing on Quality Management and Control

Leave a Comment / Certification / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Every project should be a quality project. Every team should be a quality team. And every day should demonstrate commitment to excellence in quality management. Lean Six Sigma tells us that quality is a key predictor of customer satisfaction and that managing the quality of our product reduces rework and delivers a better result for …

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Key Performance Indicators Critical to Construction Success

Leave a Comment / Certification / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Company success depends on consistently tracking progress, like monitoring annual revenue, project backlog, cash flow, and other items that indicate your company’s health. But we need to work on using these pieces of data to differentiate our company from all the others around us. Finding the unique things your company does that allow you to …

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Find a Better Job with Trade Skills Training

Leave a Comment / Workforce Development / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Do you want to find a better job or have the chance to be advanced in your trade? Then you need to invest in trade skills training. In workforce management, we call this investment “upskilling.” While trade skills training is important to many industries, it is especially so for construction. So who is most likely …

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Construction Workforce Management: a Critical Tool to Increase Safety and Productivity in the Field

Leave a Comment / Construction / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Construction workforce management is so much more than just scheduling the crews to show up at the job. It is knowing your bench strength and leveraging it to produce better outcomes through people who are safer, more engaged, and highly productive. With the introduction of many pieces of software to support construction management digitally, you …

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Why the Best CTE Programs should Include Construction Training

Leave a Comment / Education / By Angela Robbins Taylor

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is what we might have formerly called vocational education. It prepares students on the verge of entering a career field to gain skills and become more actively prepared for what is to come after graduation. The best CTE programs include construction simply because construction is one of the primary ways …

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