Construction Career Day events are workforce development tools which introduce high school students to the transportation construction industry and support the pipeline that will provide the professionals of tomorrow. The CCD events have successfully promoted the transportation construction industry and the careers it offers. Since 1999, 454,363 students have participated in CCD events.
Constructing a New Building on Top of an Historic Building
How to suspend a 13-storey office building over a four-storey historic masonry building on a tight site was a challenge.
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The Need for New Workers
There will be 1 million new jobs in the construction industry by 2016
The construction industry employs more than 7.7 million people in the US
The average age of workers in the skilled trades nationwide is 48
Baby boomers (born 1945-1950) will start retiring in 2010-2015
