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The construction industry had 295,000 job openings on the last day of June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.

As part of the summer-long, all-girls construction camp MyWIC, middle school and high school girls will visit Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Thursday, Aug. 1, at 9:45 a.m. to participate in the Skilled Trades All-Star Program.

For Buro Happold’s United States operations, the firm has just named Denzil Gallagher as its new U.S. managing director, essentially chief executive for the region. Gallagher has been with Buro Happold for over three decades.

The National Labor Relations Board issued its final rule on “Fair Choice—Employee Voice,” which restores three NLRB policies that facilitate union organizing, including the NLRB’s policy on voluntary recognition in the construction industry.

Sto Corp. has once again been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications.

AD announced that it has been named the second-best mid-size employer on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Top Workplace list for 2024, just behind Kreischer Miller.

L&W Supply has opened a new location in Yuma, Arizona, at 2942 E 16th Street. The new branch is managed by Matias Arreola.

Effective immediately, Parksite, Inc. will offer building envelope products from Keene Building Products in its entire geography, covering the eastern half of the United States. Parksite will stock DRIWALL RAINSCREEN, EASY-FUR and VIPER CDR VENT.

On July 22, SWACCA board member Geoff Furtaw, majority owner of Ceilings, Inc. in Wayne, Pennsylvania, testified before Federal Trade Commission commissioner Alvaro Bedoya to offer a contractor perspective on the anti-competitive impact that employee misclassification has on honest employers in the construction industry at a forum organized by the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters.

A concrete wall collapsed on two workers at a construction site in Long Island, New York, on July 1, according to News 12 Long Island.