Construction industry positives and negatives
The Business Journal recently convened a gathering of construction industry leaders for a roundtable discussion at Salt Lake Community College. The following text was edited for clarity and length.
Participants were asked about obstacles they expect over the next 12 to 18 months. A whiteboard list of their comments included labor, interest rates, material delays, lack of power, general uncertainty, the permit process (zoning), Buy America, bad actors and inflation.
Bryan Scott: I assume labor is, appropriately, the first one out there and the largest one. Let’s start there. Lance, talk about what you’re seeing on the education level.
Lance Eastman: On the education side, in our electrical program, we’ve got about 475 Please log in to see the rest of this story.
