Transferable Skills Offer more than a Straight Line to a Job

On April 9, Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, was inducted into Texas A&M University’s Constructor Hall of Fame. I had the honor of introducing him with this tribute: My name is Pat Kiley, and I want to thank Joe Horlen and Mike Holland for the very high honor of presenting this award tonight because this year’s […]

Houston construction leader calls for changes to save the American middle class: Part 1  I love the construction industry and I speak from experience when telling you it has to be saved from itself. Since 1938, our family business has helped build the monuments of this city and this state. More importantly, our companies –

It has been almost a year since I became the executive director of Construction Career Collaborative (C3). While I have learned a great deal during that short period of time, my biggest take away is that everyone with whom I have spoken agrees that the issue of creating a sustainable craft workforce is critical to

C3 continues to build momentum as evidenced by two recent occurrences, starting with the announcement that Texas Children’s Hospital has specified that its new TCH-The Woodlands Campus and TCH-Feigin Center 18th Floor OB/GYN Renovation will be C3 projects. This means that all contractors working on them – every General Contractor and every Specialty Contractor –

Mislabeling construction workers as contractors draws federal scrutiny Regulators team up to fight practice of employers labeling construction workers as independent contractors. June 13, 2014 Federal regulators are covering all the bases in a push to cut down on the widespread practice of construction companies’ misclassifying employees as independent contractors, depriving them of overtime and

Recently, I described the reasoning behind the creation of Construction Career Collaborative (C3) and attributed it to the fact that the construction industry has an unsustainable workforce. In that essay, I listed five different but related reasons how we got “into this mess.” Among those are a misclassification of craft workers as subcontractors, a movement

As many of you are aware, Construction Career Collaborative, also known as C3, was founded because several leaders in the commercial construction industry decided to step forward and address the huge problem that exists in our industry of an unsustainable workforce. In other words, more people are leaving the industry than joining it. In fact,

“I passionately believe that when you invest in people and you train people, you get a return on that investment – it is not an expense, it is an investment that generates a return many times over.” – Chuck Gremillion, the Construction Career Collaborative’s new executive director.Read more about our next exciting steps! (Thanks Construction

Construction Career Collaborative welcomes native Houstonian Chuck Gremillion as its first full-time Executive Director. He will be responsible for the operations and strategic direction of C3’s organization and initiatives. “Chuck Gremillion is a proven leader in Houston having led a family business, A&E – The Graphics Complex, for over 30 years. Chuck and A&E are