Key Workforce Challenges Facing the American Construction Industry: An Interim Assessment
Date
1999-03
Authors
Tucker, Richard L.
Haas, Carl T.
Glover, Robert W.
Alemany, Christine
Carley, Lynn Anne
Rodriguez, Ana Maria
Shields, David
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Publisher
Center for Construction Industry Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
This report has three purposes. First, it serves as a primer on the nature and state of today's construction workforce and how it has developed over time. Second, it identifies key workforce issues of concern to industry leaders. Finally, it ,summarizes the findings of existing research and the research of the Workforce Group. This work is motivated by the identified key issues and the problems that they present, and it provides preliminary answers to some of the most important questions that are posed by these problems.