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The Essential Soft Skills All Construction Workers Need
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Carolinas Construction Connection

03/29/2024
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In the construction industry, laborers are used to hauling materials, managing equipment, and doing the heavy lifting. A great construction worker is used to showing their hard skills on the job site. But what about those all-important soft skills? The talents that land you your next job and help you be the go-to guy on any job? If you’re looking for your next construction position, here are some essential soft skills you’ll need to demonstrate.
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Thomas & Hutton "Employees of the Year" are voted on by all team members in each office, recognizing those who have excelled in the positions, helped advance the company, and displayed strong commitment to their jobs. Thomas & Hutton recently announced its 2019 Employees of the Year for the firm's four offices in South Carolina. Each honoree works seamlessly with all Thomas & Hutton offices to meet the company’s engineering and/or project management needs.

 
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THS Constructors, Inc, one of the Southeast’s leading design-build and contracting companies, has expanded its footprint into the Charleston, S.C. market. Due to an increased presence and new projects in the area, the company has opened an office in North Charleston. Further, THS has added a new business development executive employee for the region, Cantey Hare.
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The Board of Directors of the National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) named Doug Carlson as the association’s chief executive officer, and a member of the Executive Committee. "Doug Carlson has a strong track record of construction industry leadership and organizational growth," said Dan Buckley, NUCA Chairman of the Board.
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If you ask the major Wall Street firms, you will get the same answer you always get.  Most are predicting mid to high single digit gains with a few outliers on both sides, which is pretty much the same story every year.  As we recap 2019 and discuss where we might be headed in 2020, our advice is to ignore these predictions.  Instead, focus on your own long-term goals when it comes to making investment decisions.  With volatility likely to escalate through the year as the U.S. presidential election nears, cool headed investors will likely be the ones who benefit.  Warren Buffet has a famous quote, "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."  Heeding this advice in 2020 may be especially fruitful.
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Construction input prices rose 0.2% in December 2019 and are up 1.0% year over year, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released today. Nonresidential construction input prices rose 0.3% for the month and are also up 1.0% since December 2018.
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Construction employment increased by 20,000 jobs in December and by 151,000, or 2.0 percent, in all of 2019, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials noted that its survey recent found three out of four contractors expect to keep adding workers in 2020, but even more respondents found it difficult to fill positions in 2019, and a majority anticipate it will be as hard or harder to do so in 2020.
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