Jeramiah Blum knew something had to be done. In 2021, MMR Group’s vice president of estimating lost the bulk of his estimating department in one fell swoop when 27 people transferred to the construction field. Blum’s department had traditionally served as a training ground for new estimators and future managers, many of them interns pursuing

Constructing workforce innovations
Contractors are creating new solutions for an old and worsening labor problem.



