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Associated Builders and Contractors released its 2024 Workforce Development Survey, which found its member contractors invested $1.6 billion to provide craft, leadership and health and safety education to more than 1.3 million course attendees nationwide in 2023, up from $1.5 billion in 2022 and on track with $1.6 billion in 2021. Other key findings include: “ABC…
HNTB, a leading infrastructure solutions firm, has opened a new office at 4922 O’Hear Avenue, Suite 203, in the Garco Park development near Park Circle in North Charleston, bringing together professionals from planning, architecture and engineering. To celebrate its new Charleston-area office, HNTB hosted an open house attended by employees, clients, partners, local small businesses—including…
Eighty Percent of Federal Postsecondary Education Funds Go to Degree Programs that Only 38 Percent of Americans Complete, While Construction and other In-Demand Sectors Struggle to Find Qualified Workers Only one-fifth of federal investments in postsecondary education support workforce development for fields like construction and manufacturing, while the rest of the money goes to “traditional”…
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners Crown Event Center Committee gave its approval Monday to allow the project to move into the Construction Document development phase with an anticipated groundbreaking for the new Crown Event Center planned for September 2024. The approval followed the presentation of updated pricing for the project from the Construction Manager at…
Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has released white paper 133 titled “Navigating Liquid Cooling Architectures for Data Centres with AI Workloads.” The paper provides a thorough examination of liquid cooling technologies and their applications in modern data centres, particularly those handling high-density AI workloads. The demand for AI…
LightBox, a leading provider of commercial real estate (CRE) information and technology, released its Monthly CRE Activity Index, reflecting a modest rise in May deal activity from the previous month. The LightBox Monthly CRE Activity Index provides an aggregate view of the market with information on property listings, due diligence and valuation activity enabling…
Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s executive actions on immigration. “The U.S. construction industry faces a workforce shortage of more than half a million, and bipartisan solutions are imperative to address our legal immigration workforce needs,” said Kristen Swearingen, ABC vice president of legislative & political affairs. “Today’s announcement…
The Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) today released its latest report, North Carolina: Discover the #1 Workforce in the Country, outlining the status of North Carolina’s workforce, the state’s commitment to building and strengthening the talent pool and how North Carolina is preparing for future workforce needs. The report is sponsored by Graham Personnel Services,…
The surge of artificial intelligence (AI) advancement has left many organizations scrambling to adopt the technology to take advantage of the opportunities it promises before considering the necessary safeguards, skills, and capacities required for AI implementation. According to new research from global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company, the HR division of Info-Tech Research…
Associated Builders and Contractors today issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Treasury Department’s Internal Revenue Service final rule released for public inspection June 18, which requires private developers to follow onerous project labor agreement, prevailing wage and apprenticeship policies when building clean energy projects funded by more than $270 billion in tax credits via the ABC-opposed Inflation Reduction Act. “If…
