Your best recruiters aren’t in HR — they’re on your jobsites right now. As the skilled-trades pipeline tightens, Ohio Valley merit shop contractors are discovering that crews who share their
Slower reactions. Misjudged loads. Costly rework. Worker fatigue drives all three, yet most Ohio Valley jobsites still treat it as a wellness footnote instead of a hazard. New research shows
If you are managing 2026 bids, rising materials on building projects, and the July 2026 tariff shift, ABC Ohio Valley membership should not sit on your P&L as just another
America needs hundreds of thousands of skilled tradespeople to build the data centers powering the AI era — and the trades just got a once-in-a-generation on-ramp. Meta has launched America’s
One in three mental-health struggles in the construction workforce trace back to money stress — and 73% of privately held firms expect to change hands within a decade, most with
Jordan Mitchell, President and Co-Owner of ENCON Equipment, has been named a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 East Central Award by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US).
Every June, the future of merit shop construction is decided in Washington. This year’s ABC Legislative Conference puts Rep. Ashley Hinson, Trump 2024 co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita, and DOL leadership
This June marks the 30th National Safety Month, and for merit shop contractors the stakes are concrete: falls remain the number-one killer on construction sites. From building a stronger safety
On May 28, Governor DeWine hit pause on Ohio’s data center sales-tax exemption — the same break that helped pull $37 billion in projects into the state. For Ohio Valley
Your IT team can no longer just run servers and reset passwords. As AI, analytics, and integrated platforms reshape how Ohio Valley firms win and deliver work, the contractors pulling
Your project is already telling you it will finish late or over budget. The warning signs are buried in your RFIs, submittals, and daily logs. Predictive analytics surfaces them weeks
Ninety-eight percent of construction projects run late, and the average job stretches 37 percent past schedule. On Ohio Valley commercial interiors, the damage rarely starts with bad craftsmanship — it
When a 30-year foreman retires in the Ohio Valley, decades of jobsite judgment walk out with him, and no job posting backfills that. With more than 40 percent of the
Three Saturdays in June. Three in July. Three in August. That’s all an Ohio Valley high school junior, senior, or a member company’s brand-new hire needs to earn NCCER CORE
Cincinnati’s largest construction companies are at the heart of the region’s economic engine, powering a $10.4 billion industry that shapes the city’s skyline and infrastructure. This article covers the largest
Nonresidential construction spending barely moved in April, up 0.1 percent, and every dollar of growth came from public work as CHIPS Act megaprojects cooled. For Ohio Valley contractors betting on
The Ohio Valley industrial and distribution corridor sits squarely in the path of two opposing trends: a manufacturing-related spending decline as CHIPS megaprojects wind down, and a backlog story that
Semiconductor money is reshaping Ohio. Manufacturing investment is reshaping the Dayton-Cincinnati corridor. And the contractors who’ll cash in on that pipeline in 2026 aren’t the fastest growers. They’re the most
Kettering voters just approved a $222 million school construction bond, and bond anticipation notes are being issued in June. That money flows into one of the few Ohio public construction
BLS just released its 2024 fatality data and the headline is bittersweet — construction deaths edged down, but the rate has been stagnant for over a decade. With falls still
