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A Construction Specifications Institute-launched camp at two Pennsylvania sites to introduce high school students to careers in construction now is the model for a nationwide effort.

Amazon’s $2-billion Housing Equity Fund is revving up to help preserve and develop 20,000 affordable housing units by the end of 2025.

Why fitting in at the office isn't the easiest thing for immigrants.

The federal civil rights lawsuit alleges the contractor created a racially hostile work environment and fired employees who complained.

A new scholarship program now funded at $250K will assist students studying in construction fields at historically Black colleges and universities.

Carpenter apprentice Lisa Guzman, and others, say U.S. must enact funding legislation amendment to insure career success for those long underrepresented in skilled-trades—before workforce gaps grow larger.

The tech firm's CIO talks with ENR about how a blend of remote and in-office workers will be the norm going forward, and how industry firms can adapt to this hybrid approach.

The nonprofit Build Health International overcomes myriad obstacles to enable health care for the world's neediest by providing high-quality, cost-effective hospitals.

“Nimble” is frequently used to describe how AEC human resources leaders responded to the cascade of challenges in the past year. On top of supporting field crews to help keep jobsites safe and productive amid Covid-19 outbreaks, HR teams scrambled to craft strategies for maintaining connections across a suddenly dispersed office workforce, sustain recruiting efforts with only limited access to prospective candidates and conduct sometimes difficult discussions of social justice issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.