A practical application for AI to improve construction

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By ConstructionDive | Originally posted on constructiondive.com

The promise of AI being a practical answer to increasing productivity and your bottom line is always subject to having good data to feed the AI model. Thankfully, AI-driven technology can enhance the safety and success of your projects by utilizing a visual data source that has been available for years.

No Secret, But Still a Concern

At this point, the lack of productivity increase in construction is no secret. To give you an idea of the scope of the problem, between 2000 and 2022, construction productivity grew by only .4% per year. Other sectors, such as manufacturing, rose 3% annually, and the total economy at 2%. This overall lack of productivity draws further concern with the massive labor deficit in construction. According to the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), the construction industry will need nearly half a million new workers in 2025 to satisfy demand.

Jobsites Are Uniquely Challenging

Not only is the construction industry lagging in productivity and experiencing a labor shortage, but there are also factors on each jobsite that make increasing productivity difficult. Jobsites are hectic places and require many moving pieces and parts working together to be safe and successful. Tripping hazards, working at height, and tools/machinery can cause injury if not operated safely. Safety on the jobsite IS directly connected to productivity because any incident stalls or halts progress. In addition to navigating safety concerns on the jobsite, many trade disciplines and subcontractors need to be coordinated to maximize productivity.

Now For The Good News

The common limitation to building an AI model successfully is having access to accurate data to input into the model. The old garbage-in, garbage-out principle. The good news is that construction sites can access 100% real and accurate data through visual data captured by jobsite cameras. This Jobsite Intelligence data is currently captured and utilized, but is limited to the time a person has to review the footage. AI breaks down this limitation and will allow you to quickly find the objects or events you care about on your job site, leading to a safe and successful project. For instance, are workers missing PPE, or did the cement truck arrive on site this morning?  Instead of combing hours of footage to trace these events, you can search hundreds of hours of footage across multiple cameras in seconds, utilizing AI-driven image search on your projects.

Accountability to Increase Productivity

With multiple subcontractors on site, holding each sub accountable for their piece of the project being on time and budget is very important for overall project success. Managing this progress can often lead to drives to the jobsite or loose interpretations of what “done” actually means when speaking to the sub directly. With AI-driven image search, you could see exactly when each trade showed up on-site or how long it took them to complete their scope of work.

Deliveries arriving on the jobsite on time and in the proper quantity are also critical to daily productivity. With AI image search, delivery tracking, or rough inventory counts of materials could also be easily accomplished from anywhere.

Another practical application of AI search is training your staff in the field. Overall productivity can be increased by training staff to be more productive individually. For instance, AI-driven search will allow you to isolate footage of a concentration of people on a jobsite. If there is a surplus of workers on that given task, you can discuss what a better use of their time would be by referencing real-world examples. Safety and PPE issues can also be addressed proactively using visual examples from relevant footage.

A Practical Approach To Productivity Improvement

AI-driven image search has several strong use cases and is in play at some of the largest general contractors. This piece of Contech is particularly exciting because it is a straightforward and practical application to increasing productivity in construction. The data is already available from jobsite cameras, and if you select the right partner, it is quick to implement and easy to use in the field. While image search alone will not solve all the productivity challenges in construction, it is obtainable now and has several practical applications to move the needle forward.

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Not for sports only: Construction students get signing day for new careers

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By Jean Cole, The Decatur Daily, Ala. | Originally posted on yahoo.com

May 2—About this time each year, high school athletes get a lot of attention as they sign with different colleges and universities. But there is also a signing day for students in the building and construction trades.

They sign letters of intent to take jobs straight out of high school.

For the second year, the Academy of Craft Training in Decatur had this kind of signing day Thursday for students in the building and construction trades. The program includes students living within about a 45-minute radius of Decatur. It includes 25 schools from Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone, Winston, Madison and Cullman counties.

The goal of the program is to empower the next generation of skilled professionals, officials said. The program offers:

—Hands-on learning with tools and equipment, not just textbooks.

—Real-world experience through working internships with top employers.

—Job placement, with graduates getting job offers, not just diplomas.

The academy, which now has campuses in Decatur, Birmingham and Mobile, started in Birmingham in 2016, said Charles Hall, director of operations.

“I worked for the Associated Builders and Contractors starting in 2012,” Hall said. “Our board of directors challenged us to come up with a new model for craft training. There were so many jobs in the industry but contractors struggled to find people qualified to go to work for them.

“So, we decided a captive audience was high school students. We know that about 30% of high school students go to college, leaving 70% that want to go straight into the workforce. So, we focused on that. We have the audience of 600 to 700 contractors across the state. What makes us unique is the backing of contractors so that during school breaks students can work paid internships with these contractors.”

They encourage the students, who start in the junior year, to change to a different contract whenever there is a school break they can work, Hall said. They go to a career fair their senior year and talk to contractors about working. A few weeks later the contractors come back with a list of students they want to interview. They interview them and come back with a list of offer letters for the students they want to hire.

Over the past few weeks students have had the opportunity to interview with the businesses and industries that help support the academy and try to get a job, said Haynes Riddle, Academy of Craft Training North Alabama education director.

Signing day “is a celebration of their hard work, dedication and bright futures,” Riddle said. “We are eager to see where these future leaders will land, and we could not be more proud of them.”

Hall said the day is a culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people — students, industry partners and instructors.

“This is a true public-private partnership,” he said.

Among the students at the event Thursday was Fernando Diaz.

He said he came to the craft academy because “I really just wanted to learn a trade.”

Ethyn Yancy said he couldn’t pass up the good opportunity.

“Well, when they came to our school and talked to us about it the first year that they did this, I thought there were going to be some good opportunities. I came in here and just took advantage of it. I mean, why not? You get to come out here and you can do internships and go out there and work with people while you are in school,” he said. “You get to learn it while you are here. And you get a little bit of money while you are in school.”

They will be earning a paycheck just a day or two after graduation.

“That’s how soon they want us to start,” Diaz said with a grin. He studied metal fabrication.

Yancy studied HVAC because his dad has done it, he said.

Jordan Hubbert, who studied commercial construction, said he has landed a job with Nearen Construction.

Tanner Lawrence said he signed with Fite Building Co. as a commercial construction worker.

Both said the Academy of Craft Training program was a “great opportunity.”

Brayden Palma, a senior at Austin High School, officially signed with Lee Company.

More Girls are Picking Up a Hammer in Construction Classes at Learn4Life

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By Business Wire | Originally posted on finance.yahoo.com

LOS ANGELES, April 29, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The need for skilled construction workers is at a critical point, but despite an increase in female workers, about 90 percent of construction workers are still male. The industry will have to close the gender gap if it wants to meet demand.1

Schools like Learn4Life, a network of 80+ public high schools, offer an array of career technical education (CTE) career pathways and growing in popularity are the construction classes, says Nate Larson, construction CTE instructor at Learn4Life. He makes it a point to ensure female students are presented the opportunity and feel included in the class.

“Half our students are girls, and we empower them with the notion that they can certainly design and build just as well or better than the guys in the class. I tell them I met my wife in a construction class,” he said. “My wife didn’t make it her career, but she gained great skills. Recently she decided she wanted a chicken coop, so she bought the lumber and built one. Construction skills are something everyone should have.”

Larson points out that introducing teens to opportunities in construction while they’re in high school can be the ticket to a high-paying job after graduation. Starting hourly wages in construction range from $20 to $36, depending on skill level. Employment of construction laborers and helpers is projected to grow seven percent through 2033, faster than the average for all occupations. According to Associated Builders and Contractors, meeting current demand for construction services means the industry will need to hire 439,000 workers by 2026.2

In Learn4Life’s building and construction trades CTE program, students learn how to read blueprints, properly use hand and power tools, apply construction math, learn the elements necessary to build a house to residential building code, and work on the employability skills necessary to be successful in interviews and employment. Upon completion, students will have earned their OSHA-10 certificate designed to equip entry-level workers with basic knowledge and skills related to workplace safety and health.

Larson enjoys the dynamics between the boys and girls in his class.

“The girls have skills the boys don’t have. They may not be as physically strong, but they tend to be more detail oriented and patient,” he explained. “The girls are willing to listen to direction first, where boys generally want to jump right in. But the boys will listen to the girls, who tend to be the leaders in the class.”

Students who enroll in CTE classes do better in all their classes and are more engaged. Plus, they’re more likely to be employed after high school than those who did not.3

“Those who complete this course will have the basic skills needed to continue education in any trade they choose,” Larson explained. “The course is designed to strengthen a student’s understanding, critical thinking and creative skills, and to provide a practical application of material presented in the textbook.”

For more information, visit https://learn4life.org/programs/career-technical-education/.

About Learn4Life

Learn4Life is a network of nonprofit public high schools that provide students personalized learning, career training and life skills. Each school is locally controlled, tuition free and gives students the flexibility and one-on-one attention they need to succeed. Serving more than 64,000 students through a year-round program, we help them prepare for a future beyond high school. For more information, please visit www.learn4life.org.

ABC Construction Safety Report: Jobsites Can Be Nearly 7 Times Safer With Health and Safety Best Practices

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By Associated Builders and Contractors | Originally posted on finance.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON, May 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Associated Builders and Contractors today released its 2025 Health and Safety Performance Report, an annual guide to construction jobsite health and safety best practices. As a proud sponsor, ABC published the report ahead of Construction Safety Week 2025, May 5-9, to support its industrywide call to action for safer jobsites and a stronger safety culture.

The report shows the positive impacts of construction companies participating in ABC’s STEP® Health and Safety Management System, which enables top-performing ABC members to achieve incident rates 658% safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics construction industry average, reducing total recordable incident rates by 85%. Established in 1989, STEP provides contractors and suppliers with a robust, no-cost framework for measuring health and safety data and benchmarking with peers in the industry.

“Transforming the status quo to set the expectation that all incidents are preventable creates a culture where health and safety are elevated to core values, a moral obligation for employers and employees,” said Greg Sizemore, ABC vice president of health, safety, environment and workforce development. “Priorities change frequently, but values remain consistent. The tools in ABC’s safety report draw the blueprint for industry leaders and workers to create a culture of health and safety, win and deliver work to communities without incident and protect the construction industry’s most valuable resource: its workforce.”

ABC’s research on more than 1 billion work hours completed by participants in the construction, heavy construction, civil engineering and specialty trades in 2024 identified the following foundations of industry-leading safety best practices:

  • New hire safety orientation: Companies that conduct an in-depth indoctrination of new employees into health and safety culture, systems and processes experience Total Recordable Incident Rates, or TRIR, 52% lower than companies that limit their orientations to basic health and safety compliance topics. Additionally, Days Away, Restricted or Transferred, or DART, rates are reduced by 56%.

  • Substance abuse prevention programs: Robust substance abuse prevention programs and policies with provisions for drug and alcohol testing where permitted lead to a 52% reduction in TRIR and a 55% reduction in DART rates.

  • Frequency of toolbox talks: Companies that conduct daily, 15-to-30-minute toolbox talks reduce TRIR rates by 78% and DART rates by 79% compared to companies that hold them monthly.

  • Top management engagement: Employer involvement at the highest level of company management in safety best practices produces a 49% reduction in TRIR and a 52% reduction in DART rates.

  • Leading indicators: Tracking and reviewing activities carried out to prevent and control injuries, such as safety training, new hire safety orientation and substance abuse prevention, leads to a 59% reduction in TRIR and a 60% reduction in DART rates.

“The 2025 Health and Safety Performance Report and STEP will help any contractor or supplier reinforce their commitment to the well-being of their workforce,” said Sizemore. “If we choose to lead, if we choose to commit and if we choose to transform, together we can ensure every construction worker goes home safer, happier, healthier and more fulfilled every single day.”

For eight years, ABC’s Health and Safety Performance Report has captured the results of ABC STEP member companies performing real work on real projects to identify what comprises an industry-leading health and safety program. ABC member firms participating in STEP measure their safety processes and policies on key components and the criteria for best practices through a detailed questionnaire, with the goal of implementing or enhancing safety programs that reduce jobsite incident rates.

ABC’s 2025 Health and Safety Performance Report is brought to you by DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand, celebrating 100 years in business by continuing to provide customers with total jobsite and landscaping equipment solutions.

Any company can participate in STEP. Visit abc.org/step to begin or continue your safety journey.

CONTACT: Donna Reichle Associated Builders and Contractors [email protected]

New construction jobs fall in sign of waning demand for labor

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By Ethan Duran, BridgeTower Media Newswires | Originally posted on finance-commerce.com

Construction job openings in early spring fell by 38,000, which experts called a sign of slowing demand for labor.

There were 248,000 job openings in construction on the last day of March, an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey showed. Job openings were down 90,000 from the same period last year, officials added.

“Construction job openings continued to trend lower in March, a clear sign of slowing industrywide demand for labor,” said Anirban Basu, chief economist for ABC. “Hiring activity was particularly weak for the month, with the 302,000 hires equivalent to just 3.6% of industrywide jobs — the lowest rate every recorded,” he added.

Labor force churn was “virtually nonexistent” as quitting and layoff activity subdued for the month, Basu noted.

“While a majority of contractors surveyed in March expect to increase their staffing levels over the next six months, according to ABC’s Construction Confidence index, tariffs and other economic headwinds may blunt hiring expectations in the months to come,” Basu said.

Tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump on trading partners such as Mexico, Canada and China have driven some developers and companies to cancel or scale back projects, different outlets have reported. In Wisconsin, some contractors with more than 30 years of industry experience said they have seen unprecedented uncertainty, which affects both construction companies and real estate developers.

Microsoft’s $3.3 billion data center in Mount Pleasant acts as a major labor driver, drawing more than 2,000 trades workers each day. However, the tech giant paused extended sites from its facility underway in Mount Pleasant. Mount Pleasant and Microsoft officials said they will still commit to their project.

All but four states had construction unemployment rates below 10% in March

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By Dakota Smith | Originally posted on woodworkingnetwork.com

WASHINGTON — The national March 2025 not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rate was 5.4%, unchanged from March 2024, according to a state-by-state analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released today by Associated Builders and Contractors. The analysis found that 19 states had lower estimated construction unemployment rates over the same period, 25 had higher rates and six states had the same rates. All states except for Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey and Rhode Island had construction unemployment rates below 10%.

National NSA payroll construction employment was 140,000 higher than March 2024. As of March 2025, SA payroll construction employment was 703,000, or 9.2%, above its pre-pandemic peak of 7.6 million.

Estimated state construction unemployment rates were lower than their pre-pandemic level in much of the country. As of March 2025, 30 states had lower construction unemployment rates compared to March 2019 and 17 states had higher rates, while Alabama, Florida and Minnesota had the same rate.

“Although March state construction unemployment rates show a relatively healthy level of construction employment, rising uncertainty about the business climate over the remainder of this year and 2026 is weighing on contractor and developer plans,” said Bernard Markstein, president and chief economist of Markstein Advisors, who conducted the analysis for ABC. “Confusion surrounding tariffs and their impact on building materials prices has increased the level of uncertainty. This is on top of continued elevated interest rates and higher labor costs. These concerns are stoking fears of a major economic slowdown and the possibility of a recession. For now, most of the construction industry is slowing or temporarily halting hiring workers as they seek greater clarity as to where the economy is headed.”

In March, the national NSA construction unemployment rate dropped 1.8% from February as the weather improved in much of the country. All but two states (Louisiana and Mississippi) had lower estimated construction unemployment rates than in February.

The five states with the lowest estimated NSA construction unemployment rates for March were:

  • South Dakota, 1.9%
  • Oklahoma, 2.3%
  • New Hampshire, 2.8%
  • West Virginia, 3.1%
  • Florida, 3.2%

South Dakota, Oklahoma and West Virginia all notched their lowest March NSA estimated construction unemployment rate on record. New Hampshire had its second-lowest March rate on record. Florida had its third-lowest March unemployment rate on record, behind its March rates in 2023 and 2024 (2.7% and 2.8%, respectively).

The five states with the highest March estimated NSA construction unemployment rates were:

  • Minnesota, 9.8%
  • Connecticut, 10.0%
  • Maine, 10.2%
  • New Jersey, 12.2,
  • Rhode Island, 16.0%

Rhode Island, Connecticut and Minnesota had the second, third and fourth largest reduction in their monthly NSA estimated construction unemployment rates, respectively, among the states, behind Montana.

To view the full report, visit bls.gov/news.

To view ABC’S graphs associated with this report, visit abc.org.

Construction Job Openings Down Amid Economic Uncertainty

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By Alisa Zevin | Originally posted on enr.com

Available job openings in the construction sector showed month-to-month and year-over-year declines. Economists point to caution from investors and owners taking a wait-and-see approach—at least in the near term—as tariff rates remain unresolved and wariness over the economic outlook persists. Sector jobs were down 38,000 as of the last day of March compared to February’s numbers, according to the recently released U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Year-over-year, the 248,000 construction job openings reported was down 90,000 from the number recorded in March 2024.

“Construction job openings continued to trend lower in March, a clear sign of slowing industrywide demand for labor,” said Associated Builders and Contractors’ Chief Economist Anirban Basu in a press release. “With quitting and layoff activity also subdued for the month, construction labor force churn is virtually nonexistent at the moment.”

Regionally, the number of jobs increased the most in the D.C. metro areas of Arlington, Alexandria and Reston, Va., in the past year, while the largest loss was in the Los Angeles metro area. Overall, only 192 of 360 regions experienced increased construction employment, while the number of jobs declined in 117 areas and stayed the same in 51.

“In the past 12 months, barely half of metro areas experienced an increase in construction employment, a notable slowing from last year,” Ken Simonson, chief economist at Associated General Contractors, said in a press release. “This may be a sign that investors and project owners are putting more investments on hold until they get more clarity about tariff and workforce policies that can affect the cost, timing and demand for construction.”

Basu also noted that tariffs could be influencing the current figures. “While a majority of contractors surveyed in March expect to increase their staffing levels over the next six months, according to ABC’s Construction Confidence Index, tariffs and other economic headwinds may blunt hiring expectations in the months to come,” he said.

Trump’s Tariff War Has Santa Barbara Contractors on Alert

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By Christina McDermott | Originally posted on independent.com

Will it soon cost more to build? In short: We don’t know. But market instability, current tariffs, and a potential for more to come across all trade sectors and for all of the U.S.’s trading partners have put contractors on alert. Increased construction costs would make it more expensive to build structures, such as housing, and would also add to the cost of public projects paid for, in part, with taxpayer dollars.

“It’s a major concern for us, and we’re watching it really closely,” said Ashleigh Sizoo, the City of Santa Barbara’s acting city engineer. Santa Barbara’s Public Works department works on projects, such as maintaining bridges, replacing water mains, and working on roadway projects.

Erwin Villegas is the president of Frank Schipper Construction Company, a Santa Barbara–based company that has worked on projects like the Sanctuary Center’s supportive housing project and the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute’s building renovation and remodel. He said that the company hasn’t seen increases in their construction costs yet, but their suppliers have put them on notice for potentially higher prices.

Rising construction costs are nothing new. Since 2020, the cost of construction materials has climbed by more than 40 percent and stayed high, according to Associated Builders and Contractors, a national trade association that releases reports based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Tariffs could add to those already higher prices. A tariff is a tax. It’s put on goods imported from another country, and usually paid by whoever’s doing the importing, or buying. That increased cost usually results in more expensive goods for customers.

Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, which resulted in a brief boost in jobs in some metal industries, like in steel manufacturing, but hurt workers in factories with foreign materials and caused increased manufacturing costs, according to the Federal Reserve.

The tariffs introduced by the second Trump administration, especially the reciprocal tariffs announced on April 2 and then paused, would reach farther — to every country the U.S. trades with across all trade sectors. The administration does include exceptions for materials used in construction, such as lumber, steel, and aluminum (which already face a 25 percent tariff), and electronic goods like semiconductors. But that does not account for every material required for building.

The general uncertainty around tariffs has actually increased costs already — since January, the Associated Builders and Contractors said, construction input prices have “risen at rapid pace” with 9.7 percent annualized rate increase for the first quarter of 2025.

Tariffs, too, aren’t the only thing that may impact the cost of construction goods. Villegas said that even if the threat of tariffs increasing taxes subsides, the company may still see the price of materials increase or face shortages, due to the construction now needed in the L.A. area after the January fires.

Whether tariffs will materialize is not clear. Last month, after receiving messages from Walmart, Target, and Home Depot’s CEOs, and slumped markets, the president said he has made “200 deals on tariffs” and spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that trade talks with China were upcoming. China has repeatedly refuted claims that the two countries are negotiating.

Stock market today: S&P 500 wipes out Trump tariff losses, marks longest winning streak in 20 years as trade war cools

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By Amalya Dubrovsky, Karen Friar and Ines Ferré | Originally posted on finance.yahoo.com

US stocks jumped on Friday, with the S&P 500 notching its longest winning streak since November 2004 as a solid jobs report and possible thawing in US-China trade tensions boosted spirits on Wall Street.

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) added nearly 1.5% to climb above its closing level on April 2, when President Trump announced a sweeping tariff plan on what he called “Liberation Day.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) moved up 1.4%, or over 500 points, notching a ninth winning day in a row. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) climbed roughly 1.5%.

Stocks moved higher on Friday after the monthly US jobs report came in better than expected, indicating labor resiliency despite a stock market shock in April over tariff uncertainty. The US economy added 177,000 nonfarm payrolls in April, more than the 138,000 expected by economists. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%.

Earlier on Friday, China said it is evaluating US officials’ recent overtures on trade talks to assess how serious Trump’s administration is about a shift in policy stance. Its commerce ministry said the “door is open” if the US agrees to pull back on reciprocal tariffs, paving the way to starting formal negotiations.

The comments helped ease worries that tariffs will stoke an economic slowdown, brought into focus by Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) earnings reports late Wednesday.

Apple warned of a $900 million tariff headwind this quarter and cut its share buyback program by $10 billion, sending its stock lower in early trading despite its quarterly earnings beat. Meanwhile, Amazon shares were little changed after the e-commerce giant beat earnings estimates but issued disappointing guidance that pointed to tariff and trade policy as factors.

ABC Member Named to ’40 Under Forty’ List

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By Joseph Bednar | Originally posted on businesswest.com

President, Morduct LLC: Age 39

Jason Moran started working in his family’s heating and air-conditioning business at age 15, but eventually decided he wanted to step out on his own. So, in 2017, he found a retiring contractor looking to sell his operation and hit the ground running.

It turned out to be a good decision; today, as president of Morduct LLC, Moran has scaled up his company dramatically, now employing more than 10 associates.

As an HVAC and sheet-metal contractor, most of his clients are heating and AC contractors or mechanical contractors.

“It’s a fulfilling career,” he said. “You’re always at a different location, not just sitting on your hands. Maybe you’re in a commercial space or an office space one day, and in a hospital the next day, and maybe working at an aerospace facility the next day.

“I enjoy working with my hands, even though, as the boss, I shouldn’t be working as much as I do in the field,” he added. “And I like resolving clients’ problems. Maybe they’ve had four other companies there, and then we figure it out and take care of it for them.”

As a member of Associated Builders & Contractors, Moran collaborates with industry leaders to promote best practices, support vocational programs, and advocate for policies that strengthen the trades.

He’s also deeply involved in local workforce-development efforts, partnering with technical high schools and apprenticeship programs to give aspiring tradespeople hands-on experience, mentorship, and professional guidance.

“I strongly encourage young people to get into the trades, especially this trade,” he said. “I like meeting different people and feeling a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. We’re the only trade that takes a raw material and turns it into something. Plumbing is a manufactured product; you can only use it how it’s manufactured. In our trade, the sky’s the limit; you can make anything.”

In one burst of creativity, he crafted a metal ductwork heart and put it in front of his house during the COVID pandemic, a tribute to local doctors and nurses. It has since been donated to a church in Westfield.

Moran said he’s inspired by his wife, Jess, and son, Archie, calling them “big motivators in my life.”

For Jess, who nominated him for 40 Under Forty, the feeling is mutual. “His entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to workforce development, and contributions to the trades exemplify the qualities of a true leader.”

—Joseph Bednar