Construction Safety Week is "dedicated to elevating the impact our safe choices have on our team members, their families, and the communities in which we live and work. We are united in our commitment to continuously improve our safety culture – not just during Safety Week but every day on every job site."
Industry Initiatives & Activities
Making an Impact
CIRT works to amplify industry innovation and safety efforts by encouraging its members to engage in ongoing collaborations and building awareness amongst architecture, engineering, and construction companies and associations.
Construction Inclusion Week seeks to unify an expansive network of industry professionals — including general contractors, specialty contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, engineers, owners, and technology firms — around the vital mission of promoting DEI. Our ambition stretches far beyond a week-long observance; we're committed to fostering a year-round culture of inclusivity that resonates through every project and practice.
Industry Activities
CIRT also shares and participates in a wide variety of valuable talent and workforce activities that are mission-aligned and provide actionable resources for members and the industry at large.
The goal of Build Your Future (BYF) is to change the perceptions that parents, teachers, counselors, and other influencers have about careers in construction with the ultimate goal being to recruit more young people into the community/industry. To accomplish this, BYF seeks to use non-traditional but proven media methods to push out and spread messages: social media and YouTube; geo-targeting; and behavior targeting. Learn more at www.byf.org.
As interest is generated by Build Your Future (from a robust social media campaign/videos, etc.), a website is needed -- www.discovery.byf.org -- to drive people to it that contains the key concepts the BYF is trying to instill about construction careers. The website was designed specifically for parents, teachers, counselors and others to provide information on careers in construction in a way that resonates with them.
Resources:
Construction Work Isn't Just Manual Labor - September 8, 2020
CIRT is a founding member and active participant in the Construction Career Alliance (CCA) stakeholder group representing a cross-section of parties formed to provide attention to the pressing issues regarding skilled/craft trade workforce needs. The purpose of the CCA is to create a single voice that can harmonize and/or find common ground to address the issue.
This association benefits its members through the frequent sharing of best practices for addressing the ethics and compliance risks embedded in construction industry work, and by presenting an Annual Best Practices Forum at which representatives from government and industry share approaches to current and emerging ethics and compliance issues.
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) is an invitation-only forum regularly gathering to discuss the latest legislative and regulatory challenges, hear from key Administration, Hill and infrastructure leaders, serve as an industry-wide collaboration forum, and seek creative opportunities to advance priorities.
Hard Hats to Helmets (H2H) is a home for information, communication, and awareness of the benefits of providing construction workers the most effective head protection available. The H2H initiative was developed in the framework of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) Safety and Risk Management Council (SRMC). The SRMC is group of industry executives and safety professionals dedicated to improving safety in the concrete construction industry. The Board of Directors of ASCC is enthusiastically supportive of a strong safety focus and have incorporated the H2H initiative into the ASCC strategic plan to “be an industry influencer by challenging and disrupting traditional safety models”.
CIRT is a member of the Jobs & Careers Coalition, a business alliance focused on job training and workforce development.
The Coalition is a Washington-based nonprofit promoting economic mobility – work, skills, careers, ownership and entrepreneurship for poor and working Americans. The organization’s principal activities are research, policy development, dissemination of policy ideas and working to build consensus around policy proposals.
ConsensusDocs was created and developed in 2007 under the leadership of 20 organizations in the architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) industry through a coalition effort with one goal: to transform construction by developing contracts and documents that protect the best interests of the project.
Their consensus-first approach allows for their product to address current trends and best practices within the industry to develop premier contracts that are relevant and useful in the present time.
Unlike other standard form documents, ConsensusDocs is committed to ensuring that all project stakeholders understand the appropriate sharing of risk and, thus, the value of standard documents that serve the best interests of the construction project and the construction industry.
For more than a decade, United For Infrastructure (UFI) has proudly presented Infrastructure Week as an annual, nationwide event focused on raising awareness about the importance of infrastructure and advocating for improvements that address some of our nation’s toughest challenges in transit and transportation, water systems, energy, connectivity, and more.
AEC Unites facilitates intentional opportunities for Black talent and Black-owned businesses in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. They serve as the premier resource for Black talent to identify pathways to careers and leadership opportunities in the AEC industry, and create sustainable opportunities and support Black-owned businesses to advance their growth and business capacity in the AEC industry.
LeaderFlow's mission is "to accelerate the pipeline to leadership primarily for professionals of color in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry," with the vision "to bring together passionate and accomplished leaders along with talented diverse professionals within the AEC industry to make connections, build relationships and grow into leadership."
The Construction Coalition for a Drug- and Alcohol-Free Workplace (CCDAFW) was created with the purpose of providing companies and organizations with the resources necessary to successfully implement an effective substance abuse policy. Join your fellow industry leaders in pledging your support to work towards eliminating substance abuse-related incidents on construction jobsites!
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