Some contractors have been turning to new strategies to find workers amid a labor shortage.

Site supervisors play an essential role in supervising and training the field workforce and managing projects. Making sure you have the right person in that position requires being intentional with selecting and training crew leaders.

Contractors see the biggest impact by upskilling their workforce, both existing and new. Online training empowers them to build high-performing teams. 

An AGC survey held in July and August found 81% of contractors are using higher pay and other incentives to attract skilled workers to fill open positions that 88% of them reported they were having a hard time filling.

The contractor, which self-performs work is standardizing its project information for better project delivery, including prefabrication.  

Construction firms in the mountain states are plenty busy. A surge of people moving to the region—especially Colorado, Utah and Idaho—has created a “solid funnel of multifamily housing projects,” says Jeff Palmer, executive vice president at Layton Construction.

A recent survey conducted by AGC with Autodesk found a persistent labor shortage across the industry.

Even as specialty contractors in the Southeast weather supply chain issues and price spikes, they see continued growth in the years ahead.

With a tight labor market and construction still booming in many regions of the country, one category of worker that has felt stretched thin has been equipment operators.