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Oct 7, 20244 ways the labor you hire can make or break your bottom line
Today, 98% of large construction projects result in budget overages of more than 30%.
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Jul 19, 2024What Is the Key to Driving Employee Productivity and Innovation?
In today’s business world, high productivity and continuous innovation are vital to the success of organizations. What drives employee productivity and innovation? Employee engagement. Engaged employees are more committed, motivated, […]
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Jul 12, 2024Union Construction Challenges Mental Health Stigma
The construction industry is often referred to as a career path for “tough” people. However, the demands of the job can put a physical and mental strain on the toughest among us.
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Jun 28, 2024KPH reflects back on 25 years
KPH Construction is a Milwaukee-based company providing general construction, construction management, environmental remediation and design/build services. This year marks KPH’s 25th anniversary, so founder and CEO Keith Harenda spoke about […]
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Dec 11, 2023IBEW Local 494’s, John Jacobs, talks Wisconsin’s “Electrical Revolution”
Chris Mambu Rasch: Tell us about your new role with IBEW Local 494 and how you got to this point in your career. John Jacobs: I officially started my role […]
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Dec 6, 2023The Couture is Building Union Construction’s Next Generation of Tradespeople
Milwaukee is in the midst of an exciting construction boom with several landmark projects reshaping our city’s skyline. Ongoing development has delivered steady work and employment opportunities within the union construction industry.
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Nov 13, 2023Want a Lucrative Career Without College Debt? Check out the Union Building Trades
A traditional college degree isn’t the only path to a high-paying career.
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Oct 2, 2023Unions are Part of the Affordable Housing Solution
By Chris Mambu Rasch Executive Director at Building Advantage How can we strengthen Milwaukee and the greater region by better connecting housing to jobs and jobs to housing? Building Trades […]
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Aug 26, 2022ACEA’s Matt Marcellis digs into legal cases affecting the construction industry
ACEA's Matt Marcellis digs into legal cases affecting the construction industry
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Aug 5, 2022MEETING CHANGING NEEDS: How the industry is stepping up for current challenges
Rasch: Tell us a little bit about the Plumbing, Mechanical and Sheet Metal Contractors Alliance, or PMSMCA, and your role. Kowalski: The PMSMCA is a member organization comprised of signatory […]
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Jul 8, 2022Keeping Up with Replacement Valuations
Insurance replacement values have long been an issue discussed in the insurance marketplace, but rarely pushed to the forefront … until now. It is no secret that the pandemic continues to weigh heavily on the economy, and specifically the construction industry.
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Jun 24, 2022Got Certificates? Use Technology to Manage COI Contractual Compliance
A construction industry attorney once advised that there isn’t a construction contract executed that doesn’t contain some form of contractual default. The question is whether or not the default ever surfaces.
Today’s News
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of July 13, 2026
- 200-unit apartment project wins 2nd city endorsement
- ON THE LEVEL: Josh Brown takes the torch at Bliffert Lumber
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Tom’s Drive In nears completion in Fond du Lac
- Computing facility dropped from Midtown Center redevelopment in Milwaukee
- Delayed Bay View development reaches Milwaukee Common Council
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | July 6
- Energy plant pinned to Milwaukee County courthouse project
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of July 6, 2026
- Madison roofer’s catastrophic fall flew under the radar
- WisDOT says veterans’ graves won’t be moved during I-94 expansion
- Wisconsin Laborers union launches peer support group
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)