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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

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

When the Dayton Business Journal named the 2026 Rising Stars of Construction, four of the six honorees came from ABC Ohio Valley member companies. That’s not coincidence. It’s evidence the

OSHA’s federal heat program expired April 8, and the Ohio Valley operates under federal jurisdiction across all three states in the chapter footprint. With semiconductor builds, manufacturing reshoring, and healthcare

Forty-one percent of construction’s workforce retires within five years. The Ohio Valley’s 60,000-worker gap widens every quarter. Every contractor faces the same tradeoff: invest in your people now, or operate

A $250,000 transformational gift from the Given family is reshaping workforce development across the Ohio Valley. Announced May 13 at the Excellence in Construction Gala, the new Mick Given Tools

Ohio just stood up a bipartisan Joint Data Center Committee, and roughly 200 facilities already operate statewide with nearly 80 more proposed by 2030. Six legislative proposals are now in

The Cincinnati Planning Commission has unanimously approved The Banks Urban Design Plan Update, advancing one of the largest downtown Cincinnati construction pipelines in decades. The estimated $750–$800 million redevelopment will

A 60,000-worker regional shortage means every crew member you have is irreplaceable. So why do safety programs still assume the foreman running his fourth ten-hour day has the same cognitive

While 44 states saw construction unemployment climb year-over-year in March, Ohio stood among just two states in the entire country moving in the opposite direction. New ABC data reveals what’s

Thirty percent of construction workers carry high mental health risk versus 23% nationally — and the cost shows up in productivity, retention, and jobsite safety. ABC Insurance Trust just launched

Record-breaking project submissions. The Chairman of ABC National at the podium. A new Legacy honoree, dual Community Service co-winners, and dozens of Eagle and Pyramid projects spanning Ohio, Kentucky, and