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2019 July

Architects: Do We Like Them Yet?

Over the last 10 or so years we have contacted AWCI member contractors to ask them about their relationship with architects. It often turns out to be one of the more popular subjects to...

2019 June

Meet the Winners

There’s a lot of talk about robots in this issue, but let’s start with the humans.      First we have Tim Wies, the winner of this year’s AWCI Pinnacle Award, our highest honor....

2019 May

What to Do about the Labor Shortage

Let’s begin with the main feature article on page 30. It’s a great place to start. Why? Because it’s about the number-one problem facing the construction industry today: finding—and keeping—skilled workers. Some companies aren’t...

2019 April

Managing Technology

 The Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry’s annual convention at the end of this month in Maryland will be the 25th AWCI convention I have attended. In that time, many traditions and events...

2019 March

Goodbye

If you read Jerry Smith’s President’s Message this month, you saw that a good friend of AWCI and the industry, Bruce L. Miller, passed away in January. Bruce reminded me of Jimmy Stewart and...

2019 February

Are You Feeling It?

You’ve heard the news: The partial government shutdown has left more than 800,000 people without a paycheck for nearly a month now, and there is no paycheck coming to them in the foreseeable future...

January 2019

Retiring? Plan Now!

Welcome to a brand new year. I never make resolutions, simply because I know they won’t happen or last long, but I know a lot of people who do. I do, however, have a...

2018 December

Immigration Concerns Go Deep

Can the workforce shortage be solved by making it easier for immigrants to enter the country? And for the ones who are already here, can we find a way to keep them here (providing...

2018 November

The Shortage Continues

Throughout this year we have been talking to AWCI member contractors about their business situations. In the May issue we learned that business in the northern portion of the United States is healthy, but the...