Only recently a progressive few of the more than half-a-million contractors in the United States have come to realize that quality - the execution, not the word - could lead to increased profitability, greater employee and customer satisfaction, and enhance their ability to market their firms.
In the late 1970s, the Business Roundtable’s landmark Construction Industry Cost-Effective study told a harrowing tale of management-labor hostility and jobsite atrocities.
As a result of recent demographic trends in the United States, many contractors believe that the single greatest challenge facing the construction industry is a shrinking qualified workforce.