Commercial construction may be back on track, but as projects are coming in, general contractors are dealing with a new issue…a labor shortage. The industry lost 2.3 million jobs from 2007-2009 and skilled labor has yet to find its way back to the market in a healthy amount. Taylor Johnson client Englewood Construction recently proposed three solutions for overcoming this labor gap on its blog, Hard Hat Chat.

Bill Di Santo, president of Englewood Construction (second from right), and the Englewood accounting team receives recognition from the Chicago Chapter of the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) for participating in their 2014 Accounting Intern Program.