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Boosting peer-to-peer support is critical in reducing the construction industry’s high suicide rate, said mental health advocates at the Construction Working Minds Summit, held May 17-18 in Denver.

Context and details are everything in life, including the way construction trade wages are determined and enforced under the federal Davis-Bacon Act.

More than 25,000 union carpenters and other trades walked off jobsites across province in the largest wave of labor unrest since the late 1980s.

Selected as rising industry stars, ENR’s 2022 National Top 20 Under 40 have their eyes set on the future and see a sense of urgency to embrace innovative solutions for industry challenges.

There was no shortage of ground to cover as ENR’s 2022 National Top 20 Under 40 assembled in Tempe, Ariz., to shape grand ideas into groundbreaking solutions as part of a conference and a conversation on the industry’s top issues.

Materials supply chain disruptions and the mass retirement of older workers in the skilled trades—a trend that actually began in the 2010s—have forced preconstruction professionals and estimators to be more resourceful than ever. 

After two serious safety incidents in consecutive days, Boston area’s largest contractor voluntarily issued a safety stand down on projects ending May 6. 

Construction's unemployment rate of 4.6% was the lowest ever recorded for the month of April, according to AGC.