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Women and Girls Fund scholarship goes to Hartland tech student
A Hartland woman has been chosen to receive the $5,000 New Hope Scholarship for 2020 from the Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County.
FULL-COURT PRESS: Trade group knows importance of being ‘in the game’ for youth apprenticeships
Global pandemic or not, the construction industry has not ceased struggling with its labor shortage.
BOOTS ON THE GROUND: From Navy to carpentry, Meador finds career in construction
Jacob Meador got his first taste of construction in situations where doing a good job could literally mean the difference between life and death.
NO REST FOR THE WEARY: Trades still working to recruit, train apprentices during outbreak
Despite the outbreak of COVID-19 that’s upended much of public life, Wisconsin’s construction industry is working hard to train the next generation of tradespeople. Although many classrooms, summer camps and […]
C.G. Schmidt launches ‘Ask the Builders’ virtual education series
To help provide fresh educational content for Wisconsin students who are learning remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, C.G. Schmidt recently launched a virtual education series called “Ask the Builders.”
AGC of Wisconsin donates online safety courses to high school students
The Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin’s Construction Education Foundation has donated $5,000 in online courses from ClickSafety Inc. to help high school students at the seven different AGC-supported ACE Academies across the state continue their construction education.
Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on engineering
I’m part of a team of professors and high school teachers who encourage high schools to teach kids to build guitars as a way of making science, technology, engineering and math subjects, collectively known as STEM, more interesting.
ON THE LEVEL: Fabishak looks back on career building relationships in trades
As the CEO of the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee, Mike Fabishak often finds himself trying to elicit cooperation from a group of contractors who are otherwise doing everything in their power to out-compete each other.
Former Lt. Gov. Kleefisch joins ABC of Wisconsin as ‘jobs ambassador’
Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch is joining the Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin as its jobs ambassador, a role promoting careers in the construction trades. Kleefisch served as Lieutenant Governor […]
Milwaukee area has asset in workforce but lacking in other ways
Metro Milwaukee compares well with similar metro areas for its talent pool of knowledge workers, including people in the science, engineering, and technology-dependent fields.
Foxconn announces training program for students
Foxconn is working with various Wisconsin technical colleges and universities to offer training in the sorts of work it will need at its manufacturing campus in Mount Pleasant and other sites throughout the state.
ON THE LEVEL: Collins helps companies fill management ranks in post-recession years
Ken Collins twice disappointed his parents with his career choices.
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- Bob Uecker mural going up in downtown Milwaukee
- Contractor teaches Milwaukee middle school students about construction careers
- Construction begins on Milwaukee’s 373-unit 100 East apartment conversion
- Wisconsin worker deaths slightly decline but remain high
- After neighbor concerns, Milwaukee alderwoman delays apartments review
- Dane County slaps solar company execs with theft by contractor charges
- Priciest option for Wauwatosa city hall and library project is $107M
- Residents TID petition seeks more oversight on public spending
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | May 19
- Judge orders partial pause on Line 5 construction in northern Wisconsin
- Backlash continues against Shorewood affordable housing proposal
- Worker hospitalized after 30-foot fall at Madison construction site
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)