KWCH-12/CBS anchor Lily Wu interviewed AGC of Kansas Executive Vice President Mike Gibson to discuss efforts to recruit young people to professional careers in construction – a vocation they may not automatically consider.
The work is there. The workers aren’t. That’s the findings reported by KWCH-12/CBS anchor Lily Wu. When she spoke to Jeremy Hill, director of Wichita State University’s Center for Economic Development and Business Research (CEDBR), he confirmed that the construction industry is looking for people to hire, but they’re not finding enough of them.
Javier Dominquez is a framer and sheetrocker building a tidy living laying out studs and track, and framing up walls as a subcontractor in the commercial construction industry. Recently, he helped build the YMCA on Wichita State University’s campus. Framing and Sheetrock Framers are carpenters, but they don’t always deal in farmhouse tables and furniture […]
Wes Shinkle is known as the “big wall” guy on the Wichita baseball stadium’s construction site. Why? Well, he built a really big wall. In fact, he built the first wall to go up at the stadium, the outfield wall that frames the field. Red dirt and grass field on one side. Stadium seats rise […]
As the chamber of commerce for the Kansas construction industry, members of the Associated General Contractors of Kansas love seeing the blockades and orange cones of construction — but that’s not all we see. More than detours, more than new landmarks and, yes, even more than progress, we see a vast array of craft professionals […]
