Engineering the future: Build a workforce pipeline that doesn’t leak
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As the US works to improve aging and crumbling infrastructure, assembling and retaining the workforce needed to achieve those goals remains a major challenge. GHD’s Maria Lehman says the need for civil engineers and all the trades that support them been greater. In the last decade, we’ve witnessed flat enrollments in civil engineering schools for tech associate’s and bachelor’s degrees as well as in the construction trades. That’s further complicated by the fact that the largest cohort in most of these jobs are baby boomers, many of whom are set to retire soon.
As the US works to improve aging and crumbling infrastructure, assembling and retaining the workforce needed to achieve those goals remains a major challenge. GHD’s Maria Lehman says the need for civil engineers and all the trades that support them has never been greater. In the last decade, we’ve witnessed flat enrollments in civil engineering schools for tech associate’s and bachelor’s degrees as well as in the construction trades. That’s further complicated by the fact that the largest cohort in most of these jobs are baby boomers, many of whom are set to retire soon.
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