Responding to recent scandals at public-job sites, Milwaukee aldermen signed off Tuesday on a series of policies that could eventually change the way contractors do business with the city.

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Now that federal officials are beginning to enforce new silica-exposure standards, representatives of the construction industry say most contractors benefited from the extra three months they were given to prepare.

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With most contractors struggling to hire skilled workers, an employee at Wisconsin-based Lunda Construction Co. is saying that companies will have a hard time bringing on a diverse workforce without turning to an equally diverse group of recruiters.

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Already in the grips of a labor shortage, Wisconsin's construction industry will soon be brought under even more pressure to recruit good workers by the $10 billion factory the Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn plans to build in southeast Wisconsin.

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Donald Trump's presidency will add a dash of uncertainty to a year that will otherwise see construction companies wrestling with a familiar dilemma: Demand for their services remains strong even as they struggle to find skilled workers.

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Following two years of record-breaking growth in new hotel construction, the start of 2016 seems to be headed for another banner year in the hospitality building market.

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Construction spending stayed strong in December on residential projects, although the same couldn’t be said for most private nonresidential projects, according to findings by a national contractors association.

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Members of a Milwaukee trades organization reveled Tuesday night in the city’s downtown construction boom, talked up the benefits of their group’s hiring of an in-house counsel and mulled over both recent successes and setbacks in the state Legislature.

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With the industry’s recruiting efforts bringing more young workers with little experience into the trades, what can contractors do to ensure their worksites remain safe?

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Even with unemployment rates falling, the construction industry’s job numbers were still dropping in both Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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