Gilbane Employees Volunteer Over 4,500 Hours of Service in Week-Long Community Impact Challenge

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As part of Gilbane Building Company’s first enterprise-wide Community Impact Challenge employees nationwide and around the world volunteered at organizations serving everything from healthcare and food insecurity to parks and animal welfare in a week-long coordinated effort. Across the company’s more than 45 offices, employees contributed more than 4,500 hours of service benefiting more than 150 nonprofits. Since 2021, local offices have organized local community service challenges, with 855 company volunteers contributing more than 3,800 hours of service to 156 organizations. This year, Gilbane expanded the effort, encouraging participation in every location where Gilbane has an office. The company supports … Read more

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DBIA Announces 2024 Project/Team National Awards of Merit

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The Design-Build Institute of America announced the 2024 National Design-Build Project/Team Award winners. Sixty-three projects from across the U.S. –– and one in Antarctica –– were submitted for consideration across 10 categories. Submissions were evaluated by a panel of industry experts. Merit Award winners will now compete for a National Award of Excellence, “Best of” categories and Project of the Year. “As Design-Build approaches nearly half of all construction spending, we continue to see extraordinary projects that raise the bar for Design-Build teams across the country, pushing the limits of high performance and optimizing triple-bottom line success,” said DBIA Executive … Read more

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The Rosendin Foundation Inspires Future Builders with Nationwide Construction Camp

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The Rosendin Foundation, the charitable arm of Rosendin, is addressing the nationwide construction workforce shortage with a free construction camp designed to ignite a passion for building and craftsmanship among young students. The camp allows middle schoolers to explore their interest in the skilled trades through hands-on activities such as soldering and lamp building. This summer’s camp season concluded after hosting events in Charlotte, North Carolina; Anaheim, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Sherman and Austin, Texas from May to July, with 107 graduates selected from more than 300 applicants. “The camp is not only about teaching construction skills, but also changing industry … Read more

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NFPA Survey Finds Increase in Use of Digital Tools Among Skilled Trades Workers

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The National Fire Protection Association has released recent survey results, revealing insights into trends and attitudes around digital tools, training and development and AI implementation within the skilled trades industry. Skilled trade workers have mixed feelings about AI adoption within industry Twenty-five percent of respondents believe AI should be used to help skilled trade workers streamline tasks during ongoing labor shortages. In fact, 19% of respondents indicated that either themselves or their organizations have begun experimenting with AI-powered solutions to simplify menial tasks. Additionally, one-third (31%) of respondents believe AI can spur industry growth by making the trades more attractive … Read more

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New Data Bulletin Examines Mental Health Trends Among Construction Workers

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Construction workers have the highest overdose death rate and the second highest suicide death rate of any U.S. industry. Those two issues are key elements of the September 2024 edition of CPWR’s Data Bulletin, “Mental Health Trends in the Construction Industry,” which also examines topics such as anxiety, depression, serious psychological distress, seeing a mental health professional and medication use. In 2021, 15.4% of construction workers reported, based on symptoms or medication, having anxiety or depression, and in 2022, there were 17,100 overdose and 5,200 suicide deaths among those usually employed in the construction industry.

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