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Having lived through the housing-market crash of 2008, Trey Dittmann is in as good a position as anyone to appreciate how quickly the residential-construction industry’s current boom can evaporate.

In his mere five years at Kraus-Anderson, Brent Flaten has not been in want of prominent projects.

From the streets in Milwaukee to the pipes running underneath, Clark Wantoch has made a difference in his roughly 40 years in the construction industry.

When Larry Rocole was asked by JP Cullen to oversee the opening of the company’s Milwaukee office in 1998, he looked at it almost as opportunity to start his own business.

The developer of the long-planned Couture project has secured a crucial $103.5 million federal loan guarantee.

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To speed up commercial-plan approvals, state regulators are planning to make permanent a policy change that would no longer allow contractors and architects to schedule specific dates for plan reviews.

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In the 40 years that Jeff Niesen has been at The Boldt Co., many of the biggest changes he’s seen have been meant to make the industry more efficient.

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Dan Zess never needed a lot of convincing that construction was for him. All he had to do was look around at his relatives and see the satisfaction they were getting out of their careers.

When Gilbane Building Co. was interviewing Vince Senese, the man doing the hiring asked what was the first thing he was looking for in a job.

At one point, Tom Pagel found himself having to choose if he would continue working in family’s dairy-farm business or if he wanted to try something new.