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Laughter Provides Stress Relief

Unaddressed high stress levels can have a variety of negative impacts for workers in the construction industry. Valarie Rose JohnsonValarie

Construction executives everywhere are desperately scrambling to find people to do the work they’ve promised their customers. Daniel SmallFor help

Job site safety looked a lot different just a few decades ago. Safety gear was mostly optional and visits from

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Labor shortages have become a hot topic. For Colorado’s construction industry, employee shortages are old (hard) hat. Corey DahlCorey Dahl

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Roughly 1,000 construction workers die each year on the job. This is why jobsite safety is such a priority in

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Mindfulness is a simple, practical, and effective way to enhance overall physical and mental wellbeing; it also offers social, environmental,

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Construction led the way with sizeable growth in 2021 despite challenges around the supply chain and disruption of Covid variants.

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I recall being hired for my first engineering job back in February of 1995. I left the interview feeling confident

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Workplace fatalities in 2020, a year marked by unemployment that reached over 14% in the early days of the pandemic,

Facing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) revelation that male construction workers have a 65% higher suicide rate