Tag: Women
Increasing the Number of Women in the Construction Industry
By Luke Carothers
Despite recent gains in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the AEC industry has historically been a male-dominated industry. Reports from the Bureau of...
ElevateHER™ Applications Open for 2022
Fayetteville, Arkansas – Zweig Group’s ElevateHER™ program has opened applications for the class of 2022, a group that will work on initiatives to combat recruitment...
Women Leaders Paving the Way in the Northern Pacific
By Luke Carothers
Today, across the United States, women make up only 10 percent of the construction workforce with 1.1 million workers. In some metropolitan...
Women Leading the Way at the Kansas City International Airport
By Luke Carothers
In 2017 the mayor and city council for Kansas City, Missouri selected Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate to build the new terminal...
Unwomanned Systems in Wetland Delineations
Women Drone Pilots Take Flight in Burgeoning Wetland Delineation Work
By Jeremy Schewe, PWS with Caitlin Burke and Kelly Brezovar, PWS
Use of drones and other...
ARTBA Honors AMT Women Leaders with Glass Hammer Award
A. Morton Thomas and Associates, Inc. (AMT) received the Glass Hammer award during the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) National Convention on...
Women in STEM: A Guide to Bridging the Gender Gap
Historically, women have been systematically excluded from higher education. Although we’ve made great progress in opening education to women in recent decades, there is still...
Women employees at LACO forge ahead with professional achievements
EUREKA – Geology Department Manager Christine Manhart has assumed the added responsibilities of company Principal, leading a list of recent achievements announced by LACO...
ElevateHer
There’s more we can do to encourage women to remain in the AEC industry.
By Jamie Claire Kiser
The concept of ElevateHer came to me at...