Milwaukee workforce-development officials are trying to make sure the 70 or so workers who will soon finish working on a curtain wall for the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons project can continue their careers in construction.

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It was an afternoon dedicated to putting up new buildings — and the jobs that come with them.

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Crews assemble panels at the Century City Business Park on Thursday for the Northwestern Mutual Tower expansion project in Milwaukee.

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Jeannie Lauret, owner of a Menomonee Falls-based subcontractor, said she doesn’t think twice about being a woman in construction.

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Contractors at the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons construction site have lifted into place the first piece of the glass curtain wall for the Commons, a three-story building being put up at Cass and Mason streets in downtown Milwaukee.

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Jeannie Lauret did her share of grumbling when she first got into the family business.

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The decision to split from the American Subcontractors Association Inc. boils down to money for the Wisconsin chapter.

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Sparks fly as Eric Woodard, a member of the Iron Workers Local Union 383 and working for Duwe Metal Products Inc., Menomonee Falls, uses a grinder while preparing to install a handrail Thursday on the third level of the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

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