Tools & Tiaras is an organization dedicated to advancing the interest of young girls and women who want to pursue careers in traditionally male-dominated trade professions.

The Terracon Foundation announced $2,000 was awarded to Joelle Westcott, a junior engineering student at the University of Colorado Boulder, to support her studies in civil engineering.

On Sept. 4, Carhartt unveiled a larger-than-life installation of 1,670 hard hats to represent 1.67 million job openings across construction, manufacturing, mining, logging, transportation, trade and utilities.

A few days ago, I just celebrated another birthday. 

The virtual internship program will leverage Oatey’s state-of-the-art workplace collaboration technology to keep interns connected with their teams, projects and fellow interns while they work from home.

In my last two columns, I discussed the business case for why one-on-one meetings are the single best management tactic to improve retention and results, proving the benefits through numerous sources of data. But what does a good one-on-one look like?

Last month, I presented information about challenges companies face to retain and develop their employees.

American Standard and GROHE supported the Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. By providing the latest plumbing innovations, LIXIL aims to help students receive the proper training necessary to pursue a plumbing career in today’s modern world.

Crumbling infrastructure and workforce shortage are top concerns for industry.

The U.S. is seeing about 10,000 baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) retire per day. That means every day we lose knowledge from our industry due to retirements. The fact that so much of the construction industry is experience- or knowledge-based work makes this fact especially sobering, but the challenges don’t end there.