Tag: leaders
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Why Leaders Choose Sustainability Courses to Advance Careers
Sustainability courses have become a powerful catalyst for career advancement in the corporate world. As environmental and social governance becomes central to business strategy, professionals are turning to sustainability education to remain relevant and competitive in a changing job market. No longer a niche skillset, sustainability knowledge is now a key leadership asset for those…
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The path to advanced influencing for construction leaders
Successful leadership requires an understanding of the relationship between ‘Be’, ‘Do’ and ‘Have’. I have been in the construction industry for nearly 50 years, the past 25 as a leadership team coach. I am a student of leadership. I study leaders as they go about getting things done through their people and I read lots…
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Cape Town construction manager is going the extra mile with Tomorrow’s Leaders
A construction professional in South Africa is making her mark via a plethora of initiatives to encourage local engagement with construction careers. Tadiwa Taimu, an assistant project manager at Cape Town-based management consultancy MDA Project Managers, is a CIOB Tomorrow’s Leaders representative. She has been instrumental in arranging events for the local construction community and…
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Retaining women in construction: are leaders the problem?
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Construction needs inclusive leaders, but everyone has a role to play in driving positive change. We have issues in the construction and built environment industry, let’s face it! We have an industry that, despite increasing efforts to improve diversity, has never managed to get the proportion of women working in it to more than 15.84%…
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Skanska USA Promotes Three Texas Leaders to Project Executive Roles
Skanska USA Building, one of the world’s leading construction and development firms, has announced the promotion of three people in its Texas market — Blake Beran, Tom Hull and Ben Johnson — to Project Executive. All three exhibit exceptional leadership and relationship skills, ensuring building projects are properly managed, start to finish. Since joining Skanska…
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Construction Leaders Double Down on Workforce Planning Amid Labor Crisis
A new industry report from Bridgit reveals that 98% of construction leaders plan to increase investments in workforce planning over the next year, with nearly all turning to AI, automation and advanced analytics to navigate the construction industry’s intensifying labor crisis. The 2025 State of Workforce Planning report surveyed hundreds of construction executives across operations, project management, human resources,…
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From BIM to BMI: What AEC Leaders Are Overlooking in the AI Era
Gulnaz Aksenova recently shared with me a research paper that discusses business model innovation (BMI) in AEC consultancies in the age of AI. She and co-author Rich Synott CEng FICE refer to several timely studies and examine why and how BMI is necessary to achieve a competitive advantage through the use of AI. Boosting efficiency…
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Business, Civic Leaders Unite to Oppose Wage Bill Statewide
More than 50 organizations representing economic development, community, and business groups across New York today launched a statewide coalition to oppose the proposed expansion of construction prevailing wage laws. The bill – A6708 / S6378 – would dramatically raise construction costs, stop critical projects, including those working toward New York’s housing goals, and eliminate thousands…
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Construction Leaders See Growth in Infrastructure — but Tech Gaps and Rework Threaten Progress
As demand for construction surges globally, new research reveals that the industry is struggling to keep pace with its own ambitions. A report released by Revizto, a provider of integrated collaboration tools for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO), outlines a widening gap between rising project complexity and the industry’s ability to deliver efficiently. According…
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Safety leaders call for broader access to life-saving medication as construction faces opioid poisoning crisis
Construction workers already had the highest on-the-job death toll of any industry and are now more likely to die of a drug overdose than workers in any other occupation. This new reality, primarily driven by synthetic opioids like fentanyl, means that in addition to focusing on typical occupational risks like falls, heavy machinery and electrical…