The construction labor shortage continues to impact project timelines and costs, as industry leaders focus on training, outreach and long-term workforce development solutions.

Construction laborers can have a wide range of physical labor tasks on construction sites include digging holes, mixing concrete, cleaning and preparing jobsites, erecting scaffolding and even ...

The construction industry is facing a perfect storm in the labor arena. Not only is it harder to find workers, but employers are having to pay those they do hire – many underqualified – steadily ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

From 2021 to 2023, the construction industry faced a tumultuous economic climate, marked by a confluence of challenging trends that have tested the resilience of industry executives. This period saw a ...

Deportations and inflation are worsening a labor shortage that was already running rampant through the construction industry, hindering projects and adding to an already significant affordable housing ...

Construction labor has long faced a generational challenge finding enough skilled workers. But the second half of 2022 may see that long-term problem really take its toll as inflation, federal ...

The industry has seen the number of layoffs remain steady as hiring slows, indicating contractors are in a holding pattern ...

Chris Coleman is partner-in-charge of St. Louis-based accounting firm RubinBrown’s Construction Services Group. Opinions are the author’s own. In an already tight construction labor market, raids by U ...

As homebuying reaches a fevered pitch across the U.S., contractors in New York and several other states are facing the most severe shortage of skilled construction labor since the Great Recession.

WASHINGTON, DC — The construction industry had 236,000 job openings on the last day of January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released March 11 in the US Bureau ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (April 12, 2018) -- The first cohort of Fort Drum Soldiers graduated April 6 from the Construction Craft Laborer program - a six-week course designed to prepare transitioning ...