If you have been in construction long enough, you know that job changes can happen quickly. Projects end. Companies shift direction. Markets cool off or heat up. Sometimes the move is strategic, sometimes it’s necessary, and sometimes it’s simply the right next step. There’s nothing inherently wrong with changing jobs. Where candidates tend to run…
Every client I talk to says some version of the same thing: “We can’t find the right people — and when we do, keeping them is getting harder.” That’s not an exaggeration. It’s the reality of the market. Talent Is Scarce — and Everyone Is Calling the Same People Even when a project starts slow…
The professional world welcomes bad news too easily. You can hardly step into a space without hearing the words “layoffs” and “recession,” and while it is concerning, a positive outlook exists for architects and related professions. Several architecture firms, such as Little Diversified Architectural Consulting Inc., see no signs of slowing business. As the area’s…
Mass timber construction is taking the industry by storm. While it is not relatively new, it has recently gained traction in the United States. About 1,300 mass timber buildings are currently standing or in construction in our country alone. An architectural advancement, large buildings made entirely from wood are quite novel, with a process just…
Across the country, labor shortages exist practically within every industry. And for the construction industry, it’s nothing new. In the early 2000s, the industry’s hiring problems were temporarily cured during the foreclosure crisis and the Great Recession when the housing market collapsed. Since then, the construction industry hasn’t quite recovered from the droves of workers…