Items Tagged with 'Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises'

Jerry Lewis was a champion for boosting participation of minority-owned firms on Chicago construction projects. 

But ruling does not change minority, women or disadvantaged business participation requirements for federal projects.

IMC Construction Inc., ENR East’s MidAtlantic Contractor of the Year, is as deeply rooted in the Philadelphia-area construction scene as cheesesteaks and sports gear honoring the city’s Super Bowl winning Eagles football team.

The Office of Energy Justice and Equity at the U.S. Dept. of Energy held its second annual Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Connect Summit April 17-18 at the SoCalGas Energy Resource Center in Downey, Calif.

U.S. Supreme Court decisions are reshaping DEI initiatives and public works contracting.

Phil Washington grew up on the South Side of Chicago in public housing with a single mom caring for a family of six. “The people building infrastructure in my community did not look like me,” he says. “I wondered, ‘Why can’t I get a job helping to build my own community?’”

It could be solar, it could be wind. It could be green roofs or clean streets. Whatever the mechanism for greening the built environment, there is one force that drives environmental justice activist Charles Callaway: community.

California agencies with tens of billions of dollars of construction joined more than 40 other groups in a movement to drive contracting opportunities for historically underutilized businesses.

Nearly a dozen early-career solar panel installers are working to change the terms of their labor.

Construction Inclusion Week, set for Oct. 16-20, has more than 5,000 contractor and other participants signed up this year; while leaders on Oct. 3 launched AEC Unites, a nonprofit focused on recruitment of Black professionals and sustained hiring of Black-owned companies.