BUILD YOUR FUTURE
Build Your Future (BYF) is a construction recruitment campaign connecting the industry to America's youth and displaced workforce with a mission to close the skills gap. Established in 1997, BYF promotes career awareness and readiness through education and training. The campaign has grown to develop best practices, image enhancement materials and educational tools that can be implemented by companies and organizations nationwide. Some of these methods include a national advertising campaign, scholarship fundraisers, Careers in Construction Week, and construction career fairs to bring students and industry together. BYF is a recognized campaign under the Choose Construction Initiative which is supported and endorsed by these national organizations: CURT, ABC and AGC.
Please contact Diane Greene, Executive Director of the Build Your Future campaign at 888.622.3720, or email
dgreene@nccer.org for additional information.
CONSTRUCTION LABOR MARKET ANALYZER (CLMA)
The Construction Labor Market Analyzer (CLMA) is a dependable and cost-effective solution over the traditional methods of forecasting and project labor planning. CLMA aggregates capital and maintenance project demand information, and craft labor supply data to produce a comprehensive understanding of craft labor supply and demand at the local, regional and national level. That information is collected confidentially and directly from the source to ensure its accuracy and reliability. The CLMA enables users to graph predictive Labor Scenarios to help plan future projects; avoid labor shortages; reduce premium labor costs; improve productivity, quality and safety; and meet the project objectives reliably.
Please contact Daniel Groves at dgroves@myCLMA.com for additional information.
GO BUILD ALABAMA
Alabama Workforce Development Initiative (AWDI) was formed as a non-profit corporation to address the shortage of highly skilled construction tradesmen and women. Between an increase in demand for workers and a decrease in the perception of the industry, a crisis was forming. In order to fund a branding campaign to help enhance the image of construction and recruit younger people into training, AWDI partnered with the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute (ACRI) as a pilot program. Under the leadership of AWDI and ACRI, the Go Build Alabama marketing campaign emerged successfully. The campaign is a partnership with CURT owners, union and non-union labor and training providers and contractor associations.
Please contact Bob Woods, Executive Director of the Alabama Workforce Development Initiative at 877.504.3483, or email
rfwoods@southerco.com for additional information.