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Experience vs. Credentials: Does Your Commercial Construction Contractor Make the Grade?

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and the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows employment for construction managers will grow 16 percent (faster than average for all occupations) from 2012 to 2022. But the interesting thing about commercial construction is all the different paths people take to end up in this industry.

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Escalation: Predicting project costs in a volatile market

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Escalation: Predicting project costs in a volatile market 0 qpurcell Mon, 06/03/2024 - 12:26 Construction Costs Thad Berkes, Chief Cost Estimator, Design Collaborative, shares that one of the major hurdles that Design Collaborative attempts to forecast for its commercial construction projects is escalation.

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Could the Skilled Labor Gap Set Back Biden's Infrastructure Plan?

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A recent US Chamber of Commerce survey found that 88% of commercial construction contractors report moderate-to-high levels of difficulty finding skilled workers. But the sector is still down about 232,000 jobs from February 2020, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A recent U.S.

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Where Did The American Construction Worker Go?

Chianelli Estimating

The Bureau of Labor & Statistics, & the U.S. Many of the skilled workers dropped out of the industry and never went back, some retired, and some went toward college educations and office jobs. Now that we have discussed how history and statistics explains part of the decreased numbers of construction workers.

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Retrofitting existing buildings with green roofs

SAB Magazine

According to Statistics Canada’s 2000 Commercial and Institutional Building Energy Use Survey [CIBEUS], about 70% of the country’s commercial and institutional buildings were constructed before 1980. Canada’s building stock is relatively old.

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The Future of Work is Now: Is the Construction Industry Ready?

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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Deloitte Access Economics. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Deloitte Access Economics. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Deloitte Access Economics. Figure 2: Job ads index, 100=decade average to Nov-19. Figure 3: Number of unemployed persons per job vacancy. Training .

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How to Successfully Plan the Risks Going Into a Construction Project

Fieldwire

Statistics have shown that projects with implemented proper project management practices are 2.5 Sam Meenasian is the Operations Director of USA Business Insurance and BISU Insurance and an expert in commercial lines insurance products. Image source: Business 2 Community.

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